Newspaper Crisis

The presentation brought to light a lot of crucial issues that newspapers and journalism as a whole face. The internet is really infringing on the newspapers as much of the information presented in the newspapers can be posted directly online. Since the internet can be accessed more frequently, newspapers face the crisis of becoming obsolete. Another benefit of the internet is that stories do not have to wait to be published every morning they can be posted online immediately after they are complete. If the newspaper industry does not find a way to adapt they are surly going to be out of business within the coming years. One sign of the adaptation, is that many newspapers are now having an online website where they can publish stories as well as print them in the papers. This is a very good step since they can take advantage of having their name already known in

The other problem that faces the journalism world is the simple question: Who are Journalists? Blogging websites allow everyone to relay the news in some shape or form. So what constitutes one working for a paper a journalists and someone blogging not? The answer is that much like with everything else there are professionals and there are amateurs. There still is a need in this world for professional journalists as much of the news is still produced first by newsrooms and professional journalists. They are then read by the bloggers and reported second hand. Time is the great changer of everything. In order to lengthen life of newspapers and journalists they must adapt as does everything else. If they do not they will be ruled obsolete.