Can design save the newspaper?
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- Nairn0
It's not 'dying' though. It's just that the evolution of the delivery systems are out of phase and there's a very real risk that current relatively transparent, contextual forms of news delivery will be superceded by more opaque, shallower pastiches of news.
I dunno. If I want quality news, I go to a newspaper site and read something in-depth. This is fine and functioning for national and international level news, if I refer to a couple of the big brand newspaper sites... but the situation is starker for those regional or local papers with a necessarily smaller budget.
Community and county level news is that which is most at risk and, I think, what your Senator up there is referring to.
The big media congloms can just buy up tomorrow's failing newspaper brands, and they likely will. They'll probably not bother with the less lucrative local stuff though.
- PonyBoy0
still can't make that horse drink though, Nairn...
... that's all I'm saying. :)
Those regional/local papers etc are going under because people 'choose' to not read them... right? I can't think of any other reason that they'd fail to stay afloat other than the fact people aren't interested in reading them anymore. So - if you cut them slack, make them tax exempt... perhaps even throw them a bone ($)... how will that make people want to suddenly read them again?
- plash0
It is the content that has been compromised.
there are still excellent examples of print media that have a web presence as support. The Guardian and The Economist to name a couple. So isn't it the content that is making papers struggle?