What's the future of newspapers? To fight declines in readership, newspapers are moving their content online, where readers are seeking facts they can trust, a Wall Street Journal editor said Thursday at a talk in Buffalo.
[T]he mainstream newspaper business is suffering. U.S. daily newspaper circulation fell by 4.5 million copies over the past 10 years, a decline of 8 percent, according to the Newspaper Association of America. Sunday newspapers, a profit center, are down by a similar amount.
But readership studies show that, while younger people are shunning newspapers, they are avidly plucking their news from the World Wide Web, [Melanie] Kirkpatrick said.
Newspapers are meeting them there with online editions. However, while most papers have a Web presence, few have learned how to profit from it
Questions, Answers About Challenges Facing U.S. Newspaper Business in Light of More Job Cuts: The newspaper business is getting smaller. On Wednesday, five newspapers owned by Tribune Co. announced job cuts, but they're hardly alone.
In recent weeks, no fewer than nine other well-known newspapers all announced cuts in payrolls or other expenses. What's happening?
More Than 1,900 Newspaper Jobs Lost in 2005: That figure does not include cuts at many smaller papers that don't often garner the same headlines.
Freelances ?losing work? as readers write for Guardian: Freelance journalists may be losing out on work because of The Guardian's increasing use of "citizen journalists". [...]
The issue of citizen journalists came to prominence following the 7 July terrorist attacks in London, when dozens of pictures were emailed by members of the public from their mobile phones to newsdesks. Many news organisations have since started openly encouraging readers to contribute in this way.
[The National Union of Journalists] is compiling a code of conduct to govern the way journalists work with citizen journalists. The code will cover the union's concerns about legal liability for images sent in by citizen journalists, payment, copyright and safety.
NUJ activists prefer to use the term "citizen witnesses" or "witness contributors" because the people involved are by definition not real journalists.
