Daily newspaper at doorstep nearing extinction

Daily newspaper delivery will increasingly decline in 2012 according to Alan D. Mutter, a media consultant. Mutter says that declining ad revenues have forced the newspaper industry to seek economies, but these opportunities are now depleted. One of the few options left is to cut doorstep delivery. -db From a commentary for Editor & Publisher, [...]

Opinion: Myths cloud discussions about future of journalism

In a commentary in The Washington Post, Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, lists five myths about the current state of journalism that should be trashed before discussing the future of journalism: “the traditional news media are losing their audience”; “online news will be fine as soon as [...]

Online news operation Salon.com wants buyer

Salon.com has put itself up for sale with advertising revenues down and a loss of almost $5 million in the last fiscal year. -db San Francisco Chronicle November 30, 2010 By Casey Newton Salon.com has put itself up for sale, saying that merging with or being acquired by another company could be its best bet [...]

Traditional news media maintaining audience

Despite widespread belief that traditional news media has drastically declined, a recent Pew Research Center study shows that Americans are spending the same amount of time gathering news from TV, newspapers or radio than they did in 2000. -db The Washington Post September 12, 2010 By Howard Kurtz With news and gossip leaping off every [...]

Survey shows online news supplanting print media as third most popular news venue

A survey by the Pew Research Center showed that 61 percent of readers get news online compared to 50 percent who regularly read newspapers. Seventy-eight perent view local news channels and 71 percent get news from national TV networks. -db BBC News March 1, 2010 Online news has become more popular than reading newspapers in the [...]