3. Part I.
Journalism in the Internet
Age
The challenges and the opportunities
The challenges and the opportunities
The challenges and the opportunities
4. Journalism matters. We live in a much more
interconnected world where information is ever-
more critical to our lives... Yet at the same time
journalism is itself undergoing profound changes for
social, economic and technological reasons. -
Charlie Beckett
5. Some Statistics
As of 2010, 166 newspapers in the United States have closed.
Since 2001, an estimated 15,000 journalists have lost their jobs in the
United Kingdom.
A 2010 study found that from 2007 to 2009, newspaper circulation
dropped in many developed countries - 25 percent in the UK, 30 percent
in the US and 17 percent in Canada.
The Newspaper Association of America reports $798 million in print
losses for the first half of 2012 compared to the same period a year ago.
There was a $32 million gain in digital. The ratio of losses to gains is 25
to 1.
Over the last five years, an average of 15 papers, or just about 1% of the
industry, has vanished each year. A growing number of executives
predict that in five years many newspapers will offer a print home-
delivered newspaper only on Sunday, and perhaps one or two other days
a week that account most print ad revenue.
6. Signs of the Times: Closures, Layoffs
The New York Times is considering selling the Boston
Globe, once a flagship newspaper of the United
States.
In 2009, the Rocky Mountain News, Colorado’s oldest
newspaper closed.
In 2012, The Times-Picayune announced it would cut
back print circulation to three days a week.
Drastic decline of foreign news bureaux.
8. Diverse skills - writing, editing, video, audio, photo
Social media: Knowledge of how to promote yourself
and how to use social media for your work - looking
for news, analyzing comments, engaging with
readers and creating sources.
Citizen journalism - the democratization of news
production and new forms of audience engagement,
cooperation
31. The move toward mobile holds some promising options for news
producers. To capitalize on it the industry will need to do a better job
than it did in the desktop realm of quickly coming to understand
audience behavior and developing technology and revenue models to
adapt to it.
