The death of the newspaper

Hazys

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/25/us-media-neworleans-newspaper-idUSBRE84O03E20120525

The 175-year-old Pulitzer Prize-winning New Orleans Times-Picayune newspaper will reduce the number of days it publishes a print edition to three a week, making the Louisiana city the largest in the United States without a daily newspaper.

Its the beginning of the end for print journalism and journalism as we know it. Athough its been coming for awhile this will be the first major newspaper to stop printing daily in favour of supplying the news online.

Although i never read the newspaper, i think its kinda a sad shift in times as we move further into the digital era. The world is moving fast, it didnt seem so long ago you would get the news in newspaper in the morning and you would have to wait till the 6 o'clock news to get updated on the latest news...the World War 3 could have broken out in those hours and you would have been none the wiser.

Journalism and how we receive news is changing dramatically, for better and worse.

cocoshovel

Is there even any newspapers in Ireland that print every day?

MrStuffins

I'm reading this news story online

**MERGED WITH "DEFINITION OF IRONY" THREAD**

Whippersnapper

I used to buy a newspaper every day, now I just buy them on a Saturday or Sunday. Not because I get my news online but because I don't get the time to read them anymore and get my news on the radio instead.

cashback

I like the newspaper because there's no reader comments underneath which inevitably draw my attention and make me hate people.

Hazys

Hazys wrote: »

The world is moving fast, it didnt seem so long ago you would get the news in newspaper in the morning and you would have to wait till the 6 o'clock news to get updated on the latest news...the World War 3 could have broken out in those hours and you would have been none the wiser.

No radios?

Fishooks12

Hazys wrote: »

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/25/us-media-neworleans-newspaper-idUSBRE84O03E20120525



Its the beginning of the end for print journalism and journalism as we know it. Athough its been coming for awhile this will be the first major newspaper to stop printing daily in favour of supplying the news online.

Although i never read the newspaper, i think its kinda a sad shift in times as we move further into the digital era. The world is moving fast, it didnt seem so long ago you would get the news in newspaper in the morning and you would have to wait till the 6 o'clock news to get updated on the latest news...the World War 3 could have broken out in those hours and you would have been none the wiser.

Journalism and how we receive news is changing dramatically, for better and worse.

Less fecking jobs for journos

Latchy

I have three orignal newpapers in frames ( Death of JFK ,Man Lands On The Moon , John Lennon Murdered ) so that's my tribute to the printed newspaper , which I now mainly read online .

I only need ''Ireland ,Winners of The Euro Championship '' to complete the set .:pac:

Mardy Bum

Major journalism in general has decreased over the years. What used to be an industry filled with hundreds of companies has now dwindled to less than ten major corporations running the entire industry. Print journalism was a cash cow up until the internet inducing standards to decline in order to make bigger profits. Owners allowed these standards to decline, failed to innovate the industry and hired brutal journalists to replace quality journalists. Newspapers are now to far behind to catch up with the burgeoning new media and do not offer a product of value any longer.

The recent scandals to rock Britain have shown up modern day journalism for what it is. Newpapers are now generally full of opinion sections from supposed celebrities which are of no practical or intellectual value. The newpaper owners wrote their own epitaph years ago.

mikemac1

Good riddance to a lot of them

EASY
England Algeria Slovenia Yanks

I still remember that headline :rolleyes:

Fishooks12

mikemac1 wrote: »

Good riddance to a lot of them

EASY
England Algeria Slovenia Yanks

I still remember that headline :rolleyes:

That's a headline from a tabloid. You realise there is more to newspapers than that crap?

DEFTLEFTHAND

mikemac1 wrote: »

Good riddance to a lot of them

EASY
England Algeria Slovenia Yanks

I still remember that headline :rolleyes:

Made it all the more funny though when they couldn't beat the Yanks or Algeria and only scraped a one nil win over lowly Slovenia.

JONJO THE MISER

I buy the newspaper for the articles.

mikemac1

Fishooks12 wrote: »

That's a headline from a tabloid. You realise there is more to newspapers than that crap?

Yes

I posted "a lot of them"

Not all of them

Fishooks12

mikemac1 wrote: »

Yes

I posted "a lot of them"

Not all of them

My mistake. I agree, good riddance to the tabloids.

Unless of course they want to hire me..............just drop a PM

Profiler

Mardy Bum wrote: »

Print journalism was a cash cow up until the internet inducing standards to decline in order to make bigger profits.

The quality of print journalism was on the wain long before the internet.

Owners sacrificed quality in pursuit of profit, that's what killed the newspaper, not the internet.

KKkitty

OP why wait for the newspaper tomorrow when you can get news on demand online. Print journalism may be on a downward spiral but I'm sure the same amount of journalists will be needed if not more to keep up with the worlds news updates.

MrStuffins

Fishooks12 wrote: »

My mistake. I agree, good riddance to the tabloids.

Unless of course they want to hire me..............just drop a PM

They won't PM, they'll leave you a Voicemail.

Thing is, it'll be in Kate McCann's Voicemail. If you can access it, you're hired!

DavidWills

The day of the PC and laptop are next, 27,000 jobs to go at HP. In 3 years moblie phones & ipad/tablet will take over the world.

Mardy Bum

Profiler wrote: »

The quality of print journalism was on the wain long before the internet.

Owners sacrificed quality in pursuit of profit, that's what killed the newspaper, not the internet.

That is what I meant, I missed the comma after internet.

Print journalism was a cash cow up until the internet, inducing standards to decline in order to make bigger profits.

I meant it was making huge money until the internet came along and it was this pursuit of greater profit which induced standards to decline.

starviewadams

I still buy two newspapers a day,one in the morning and one in the evening.Sad to see the demise of printed media,though it's inevitable thanks to the massive decline in journalism standards and major technology breakthroughs over the last few years.The idiocy of the general public who would rather read about Z list celebrities then actual news hasn't helped either.

Run_to_da_hills

Old man gets a daily hard copy of the Irish Times, usually give it a flick over in the morning. I also like alternative.

missbelle

I like to flick thru the metro in the morning, but can't remember the last time I bought a paper or magazine. I catch the news online, and the daily mail is great for my celeb fix :-D

HigginsJ

I have to buy the Sunday times every week.

Simply because its plain wrong to try and take your laptop to the toilet. Thats why newspapers will never die off

Jester252

HigginsJ wrote: »

I have to buy the Sunday times every week.

Simply because its plain wrong to try and take your laptop to the toilet. Thats why newspapers will never die off

What about the smartphone and tablets?

al28283

Latchy wrote: »

I have three orignal newpapers in frames ( Death of JFK ,Man Lands On The Moon , John Lennon Murdered ) so that's my tribute to the printed newspaper , which I now mainly read online .

I only need ''Ireland ,Winners of The Euro Championship '' to complete the set .:pac:

I'll just download the PDF's :cool:

HigginsJ

Jester252 wrote: »

What about the smartphone and tablets?

Smarthpones be a bit small no?

Tablets I guess are an alternative. Still its not the same. Also would you not simply get sidetracked onto something else with a tablet.

Jester252

HigginsJ wrote: »

Smarthpones be a bit small no?

Tablets I guess are an alternative. Still its not the same. Also would you not simply get sidetracked onto something else with a tablet.

Porn?

Mardy Bum

David Simon creator of The Wire gave an excellent speech on the death of print journalism which can be found here

The final season of the Wire also elucidates the problems with modern day print journalism excellently.

HigginsJ

Jester252 wrote: »

Porn?

That or people falling down, not much else on the internet really!!

Doc Ruby

DavidWills wrote: »

The day of the PC and laptop are next, 27,000 jobs to go at HP. In 3 years moblie phones & ipad/tablet will take over the world.

Its just about impossible to do much if any work on a tablet or phone, they are commuter toys. You need a keyboard.

On the newspapers thing, while they still have some money in the bank they should partner up with the telcos and get behind free metropolitian wireless, with a faster paid version which includes higher speeds and subscriptions to all their newspapers, delivered right to your client of choice.

flanders1979

Shur won't a few trees be spared.

HigginsJ

Doc Ruby wrote: »

Its just about impossible to do much if any work on a tablet or phone, they are commuter toys. You need a keyboard.
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Spot On

Ellis Dee

Many, many moons ago, some people were worried that radios would replace newspapers, but then they realised that radios could never be used for wrapping fish and chips.

Now, forecasting the death of the newspaper may likewise be premature, at least in countries where the newspaper industry has its act together and the people boast a high standard of literacy.

I nowadays never buy a newspaper in Ireland - I read them on the Internet -, but when I am in Finland, two are delivered to my home at around 3.30 every morning, winter or summer. The newspapers compete with each other for readers, but cooperate to run ultra-efficient delivery systems and the same delivery person may carry a half dozen different titles.:cool:

Subscribing to a newspaper is a great deal less expensive than buying them at a newsstand, and the vast majority of Finns are able to read the paper with their morning coffee before they go to work. The ones I get are Helsingin Sanomat and Hufvudstadsbladet, both so-called quality titles, or broadsheets.

The industry has felt a bit of a pinch, but remains pretty robust. It would be nice to see such an efficient delivery system bringing papers to the majority of Irish homes in time for them to be read over breakfast, but people will be having breakfast on Pluto before that happens.:D:D

cashback

Maybe the future of print news is in cheap, reduced size newspapers.
The 'i' newspaper has been very successful since it's launch here in the UK.

Buy it a couple of times a week, it's only 20p, good for getting change for the bus. Better than the metro anyway.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/mar/09/i-newspaper-bucks-trend-abcs

DavidWills

Price of paper going up all the time will eventually kill the printed version