Journalism war overhyped
Like any major industry, journalism is constantly undergoing a metamorphosis, regularly re-birthing itself.
Each time a new medium was announced, others were predicted to die. Radio was going to kill newspapers, television was going to kill radio, the Internet was going to kill them all, and so on and so forth. Right now the current supposed battle has pitted all traditional news sources (print, radio and TV) against the Internet. If anyone knows how this battle should play out on the American Continent of the woods it’s Charles Campbell. The award-winning journalist has worked for such publications as the Vancouver Sun, the Georgia Straight and The Tyee as both a reporter and editor.A Google search of “Death of Newspapers” gets around 1.4 million hits. Stories in publications covering a wide variety of spectrums such as The Economist, Adbusters and Slate.com dating as far back as the late 1990s foretell the death of hard print. Campbell said the newspaper and magazines, aren’t dead or dying, in fact the battle is much more complex. Major dailies in metropolis areas stand to lose the most to the Internet, and paid publications – from physical magazines to online news sites – might also suffer. However some dailies and major magazine such as the New York Times and Vanity Fair have embraced the Internet, offering online-only content, treating the Internet not as a threat, but another medium for their product.
Note EU-Digest: "In this respect electronic news publications like EU-Digest at http://www.eu-digest.com and Turkish Digest at http://www.turkishdigest.com are perfect examples of the synergy that can be created between the written press and the blogosphere."
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