The article is about the decline in the newspaper industry. Throughout the article, it talks about how the internet has effected the newspapers and how the revenue of the newspapers is falling massively. It also gave many outstanding statistics, for example the number of people that worked for the Newspaper Association of America had fell by 18% between 1990 and 2004. In addition, the article also goes into talking about 'citizen journalists' and bloggers themselves, talking about how they are all opinionated and is done 'unprofessionally'. For example, bloggers are just normal people that sit behind a screen on an armchair. Despite there being a great fall of newspapers in America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, the sales are, yet, still rising in all the other countries but that is due to the lack of not having a great amount of NDM in those specific locations. Also, it goes on to say that the popular newspaper companies like the New York Times, should increase the price of their journalists as there has already been a major loss in revenue to the internet.
1) In my opinion, I do believe that this is a 'cause for concern but not for panic'. This is because of the fact that not enough information will be distributed to the public since there will eventually be a huge decline in the newspapers industry and in journalism. If there is a decline in newspapers, the information that is distributed online could potentially be misleading since there will be a lack of gate keepers etc. This is the same for journalism as there would be no one to be reporting the news to the different companies and will also just be done unprofessionally.
2) To some extent, I do believe that the writer's predictions are true but also has been quite inaccurate so far. In the article, it says that in specific countries, the newspapers sales are still rising. However, if you take a country like, Spain for example, print is starting to die there and they are becoming a country where using a mobile phone is more popular to look at the news. In addition, in France, they had recently launched a Snapchat feature where on the discovery page, the new feature is that the French viewers can look at newspaper articles which are very popular in France.
3) Many organisations such as Carnegie and the Guardian have respected that high quality journalists will be backed up by non profitable organisations. A key example of this could be a high quality journalist which adds all of their research and whatever they have found onto Twitter. Journalists wouldn't be making money with what they post as nor would Twitter as it would be an ordinary person with no organisations they're working for; it cannot be profited from then. However, Twitter can still make their own profits from different sorts of advertising. In addition, the Guardian is owned by a British company that is called the Scott Trust Limited.
3) Many organisations such as Carnegie and the Guardian have respected that high quality journalists will be backed up by non profitable organisations. A key example of this could be a high quality journalist which adds all of their research and whatever they have found onto Twitter. Journalists wouldn't be making money with what they post as nor would Twitter as it would be an ordinary person with no organisations they're working for; it cannot be profited from then. However, Twitter can still make their own profits from different sorts of advertising. In addition, the Guardian is owned by a British company that is called the Scott Trust Limited.
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