What’s News? Who Knows! Welcome to Print 2.0: By nature, breaking news stories need a break: an on-the-record quote; a clean anecdote. Those are the types of stories that get prominent placement on front pages of newspapers. And if you’re missing that? Any reporter will tell you it requires a trip back to your sources to get something more.
But is that changing? Several reporters and editors say they’re noticing an increasingly changed dynamic where more stories with little fresh news are getting packaged with strong placement. We’ll call it fake news: stories that are driven by speculation, or a rehashing of collected detritus that was already circulating among blogs and the gossip mill on a reporter’s beat.
USA sees drop in number of newspaper journalists: The number of newspaper journalists in the US fell last year by almost 5 per cent to a low of 52,600, the lowest it has been for almost 25 years and the biggest drop in 30 years.
The new figures, released by the American Society of Newspaper Editors, reflects the attrition going on in the America media.
The figures also reflect the continuing - and sometimes controversial - debate over the number of "minority" journalists employed by US papers.
