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"Internet use could kill off local newspapers, study finds"
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Internet use could kill off local newspapers, study finds
News audiences are ditching television and newspapers and using the Internet as their main source of information, in a trend that could eventually see the demise of local papers, according to a new study Wednesday.
"As online use has increased, the audiences of older media have declined," Harvard University professor Thomas Patterson said in a report on the year-long study issued by Harvard's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy.
"In the past year alone… newspaper circulation has fallen by three percent, broadcast news has lost a million viewers," said the study, entitled "Creative Destruction: An Exploratory Look and News on the Internet."
Meanwhile, the numbers of people using the Internet as a news source have increased — exponentially, in some cases.
Traffic to websites that post news produced by a third source, including search engines and service providers, aggregators, such as topix.net or digg.com, which use software to monitor and post web content; and blogs — increased across the board between April 2006 and the same month in 2007.
Monthly visitors to Digg.com, an aggregator which lets users decide on site content, skyrocketed in the 12 months to April 2007, from two million to more than 15 million.
Other online news sources grew more modestly, with user rates growing by 14 percent for community websites and six percent for blogs.
The Google, Yahoo, AOL and MSN websites between them have about 100 million monthly visitors, far outpacing user numbers on websites of major television networks, which averaged 7.4 million visitors a month.
"Brand name" daily newspapers, such as the New York Times and Washington Post, averaged 8.5 million monthly visitors.
But newspapers in medium-sized to small cities saw either a drop in or no change to the numbers of visitors to their websites, which have already taken readers from hard-copy editions.
The authors of the study predict that many small newspapers could have difficulty holding on to even their web audience, and counsel that they include "national and international news in the mix."
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Down with newspapers! Save the trees!
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I'm shocked that no one has commented on this yet. Maybe it's cuz it's almost 5 in the morning and I can't sleep : (
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canada = 6;o2 :S havent slept yet and this shows how our poulation are turning into blabbering idiots
This doesnt surprise me…..Who doesnt go to the net for information. Its right at our fingertips EVERYWHERE we go….work, school, home, waiting for my car at the acura dealer…….Save Trees
This is a good thing, save the trees save the world.
GOOD! Save the fucking trees.
OMG!!!
That's Michael Myers!
And he uses Windows.
is anyone surprised?? I think we all know people would rather read it online than actually go out and buy a paper and get that black ink all over their fingers..not to mentiom the fact that its much more green to read it online. plus you get the news faster
NET 2.0 KILLED THE NEWSPAPER RAGS!!!
We all know newspapers can at times be misinformed, however, who monitors websites and the news they peddle? Are we going to be reading all our news from unconfirmed sources who pander to their sponsors? Holy shit it will be just like TV!
I work for a smaller newspaper (circulation 40K - 50K). They are sweating bullets, let me tell you! I do online sales for them and they are trying to beef up their online, but are COMPLETE IDIOTS! I'm leaving them to start my own online business and bury them. BWAH HAH HA!
This is a big "no crap sherlock". I haven't read a newspaper in years…I get it all from the internet. The only time I turn on the TV news is when there's bad weather. What did we ever do without the internet?
I agree with Lucy…
How come there is never any information about Keanu Reeves on this site, or anywhere for that matter. Don't you consider him hot?
“In the past year alone… broadcast news has lost a million viewers,” said the study, entitled “Creative Destruction: An Exploratory Look and News on the Internet.”
mmmmkay…these are the sort of stupid reports I can't believe people wasted time & money creating.
It's absolutely 100% impossible to figure out TRUTHFULLY how much of an audience broadcast news has lost or gained. Most people anonymously watch their tv and don't report that to any sort of survey.
Having said that however, I never watch TV news or read the printed paper. I prefer the timeliness of on-line news and I like to think it saves trees. Plus I don't have to deal with the annoying commercials and moronic newscasters.
um okay to all of you who think you're being so eco-friendly by SAVING THE TREES…
computer use alone takes up an obscene amount of energy- and just an hour on the computer is more destructive than buying a stack of newspapers.
i'm not saying anything about how we should save the environment but your arguments are pointless. save the trees, keep destroying the planet.
I have to agree - I've been reading my news online for a long time now. It's easier and much better for the trees. The local newspapers are going to have to adapt with the times to stay alive.
#27 - so why are you using the computer then?
I liked newspapers; like how in old time movies, you always see someone with a newspaper. lol
Um, this isn't news! Everyone has been casually talking about this for years! Where's the real news, Perez?
I wouldn't train my dog on my local newspaper. On the internet you can read left wing, right wing and everything in between and come to your own conclusions. That is a good thing.
My local paper (which is arch-conservative, but the only way to keep up with local stuff) refuses to post most of its news online. It'll give you a tiny snippet of a story, then say "read the entire story in tomorrow's GOP Daily." And then they wonder why their subscriptions are slipping?!? Print newspapers are going to have to get with the times or go under.
I wasn't a journalism major in college, but took journalism classes…most of demographic who reads papers is (surprise!) older readers…the newspaper's average reader is about 60 (if I remember correct!) or older….
I agree with the Perezzer who said that if it doesn't come from a credible source, online news can be skewed in favor of the advertiser..pandering!
My poor grandma. She loves the paper! She doesn't know the internet! It sucks to lose old fashioned ways of life
The imbeciles that read perezzy's blog have never read a newspaper.
This is great news! Fewer trees being destroyed, no commercials and the ability to read many varying opinions!!
Now if everyone would stop drinking so much bottled water, the planet would be in even better shape. Get a water filter for your home and carry your water with you in a reusable container. It's the new cool thing to do : )
old news.
Completely agree, I no longer purchase my local Fresno Bee due to envirmental waste and innapropriate violent crude articles (do I really need to know about every baby murder? how they did it and suffered?) they have also published pictures of dead bodies in there local and front page sections…eww now I read online for free and enjoy not having to walk o9utside in the cold to get the paper.
They could just go online! Problem solved. We read expert stuff too - we just prefer to read it conveniently online.
HAHA also, newspapers are made of recycled paper…so save the trees by not using new paper #2.
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Fuck newpapers.
Defo save the trees and factory pollutions.
Everyone has a computer,
well and a tv.
So news should stay on the tv but definately increase on the internet.
But make websites that are approved by special people so you know the news is correct etc.
But I love magazines so dont stop them!
But defo newpapers because there useless of recycable stuff.
Newspapers are important. You never know if you can believe what you read online. Plus, old people don't use computers that much and still need newspapers… I think it'll be fine.
yep. digitization baby. noone wants to carry around newspapers anymore.
I don't like the slanted news in the newspapers.
I get almost all of my slanted news from the
internet and talk radio.
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The Internet is making the newspaper industry livid because of declining "newsprint" sales. I have been inundated with phone calls from the "Arizona Daily Star" and the "Tucson Citizen."
I'm not safe in "Fry's" grocery store. As soon I enter the front door, I'm approached by a Fry's employee asking, " Do you get the paper? Sunday paper? What about all the food coupons you're missing because you don't subscribe to the paper? I told them, "I get all my info from the web and oodles of manufacturers coupons as well, and I can print out the coupons I use, instead of filling my waste paper basket up with trees that are no longer left to bask in the sun.
My words fell on deaf ears, so I changed my answers.
Do you get the paper? No, my puppy is now potty trained and I no longer needs the newspaper. Anyway, my puppy doesn't read newspapers, he's into books. He adores "Clifford the Big Red Dog."
Sunday paper? I don't have birds. I don't have a birdcage, so so therefore, there's no need for papers.
Coupons, you must need coupons from the newspaper, to save money. I do save money by not buying a newspaper and no coupon is necessary for that!
Ah yes…I love to get all my news online as well. I can skip right to the headlines I care about and Google on other stuff that has peaked my interest. My grandmother…still loves getting her paper everymorning..it's part of who she is…but as her generation depletes, I fear the paper version of the news will too.
The only crap side to that is…grandma died and what will I use as packing material when I move?
i'm not above reading a pap, but it's a 700 year old technology. getting news on the web saves trees and water and chemicals and fuel, and you just can't really compete with free. lots of ink-stained wretches are going to stand in bread lines.
Internet blogs will never be as classy as a real newspaper.
yeah seriously, thats GOOD..better environmentally..plus i dont have to leave my house to get the gos
It's easy to say "save the trees," but what about the millions of people who will be out of work if newspapers disappear? I think newspapers still provide a valuable service to the public, and there can be room for both.
NicoleRichie.TV is gonna be launched soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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