Comments on: Are We Witnessing the Death of Print Journalism?

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 18:41:32 +0000

The financial pressures on magazines and newspapers have caused them to cut editorial positions, lay off copy editors and proofreaders, and close inhouse libraries and fact-checking departments. Combine these cuts in support with the much diminished knowledge and skills of today’s college graduates, including j-school graduates, and you have much less reliable, much more error-laden reporting. There is also much less money for in-depth reporting and follow up, and not the attention spans out there anymore to appreciate such things.

By: knupNET

knupNET — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:51:44 +0000

Print advertising is a big market. I don’t see this being in jeopardy for at least another decade. At that point – who really knows. Thanks for the article.

By: Fred

Fred — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:34:44 +0000

While I think print media will have to converge/rethink their pricing and business model in the coming years, I really hope we don’t see newspapers and print lose financially viability. There’s really a great niche that newspapers fill that the web will never enter (inexpensive, portable, a simple hierarchy of stories) and I fear for the state of journalism if bloggers get too strong a role as the champions of news. Regardless of the media’s biases, you still can’t ignore the training and discipline it takes to be a professional journalist… hopefully we’ll see more of them, not fewer!