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March 07, 2007
People News. The Death of the News Industry
People News. The Death of the News Industry: Death of the traditional news industry seems imminent. With newspaper readership diminishing, is orthodox journalism on the downward? There is a swelling popularity among alternative and opinionated news outlets. For instance blogs and parody news programs such as The Daily Show and The Colbert Report seem to be increasing the source for day to day happenings. In a four-part series produced by PBS' Frontline and the UC Berkeley School of Journalism entitled News War, an examination of this very question and the situation that the news industry currently faces is discussed.
As Dean Baquet, former editor of the Los Angeles Times, explained in an interview for the four-part, four hour series: “There's a tremendous amount of anxiety right now about newspapers and the threat to newspapers. I think there is such a threat, but I'm convinced -- and maybe it's because I believe in the reader, and I believe in the people who care about news -- I'm absolutely convinced that even if they don't survive on paper, though I think they will, ... there will always be an appetite for what's going on in the world...I think what's under threat is not the journalistic model. What's under more threat is the business model for what a great newspaper is. ...”
To watch the entire four-part series online [Here]
Posted by Vaughn at March 7, 2007 08:02 PM