Are less interested in the news to the demise of the newspaper?
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The future of newspapers is here! User-generated content and citizen journalism is a booming business over at CTReaderEast.com, an on-line eight community news service.
In 1960, 80 percent of Americans read a daily newspaper. Today it’s closer to 50 percent and falling. Readers are shifting their eyes and ears to online sources of information, delivered via everything from mobile phones to iPods. Online news is especially useful because it's usually free and the content can be easily controlled and personalized.
“We read, listen and watch what we want when we want, and what used to be a passive one-way conversation is turning into an active relationship. Content flows both ways.” Says Andrew Simonow, Publisher of CT Reader East .com
On CTReaderEast.com any reader can write the news as they see it. Citizen journalism and thousands of headlines across the internet make up news found on this on-line service. More than 4,000 articles are read daily.
Traditional boundaries between the creator and the consumer are becoming eroded or disappearing altogether. There are newspapers like “Play Bac Presse” in France written entirely by readers. “OhMyNews” in South Korea is created by 33,000 ‘citizen reporters' and is read by 2 million South Koreans. In the US the Wisconsin State Journal (the State's second largest selling paper) asks its readers to go online everyday between 11A.M. and 4 P.M. to vote for the next day's lead story.
So are less interested in the news to the demise of the newspaper? No, today there are more news junkies than ever. Some subscribe to hundreds of feeds including those from The New York Times, The Hartford Courant, and USA Today, and use readers like “Google Reader” to read them. So what’s killing the newspaper? It’s the alternative channels to newsprint, namely the on-lines. One of the first apps you’ll see on your new iPhone 3G is “The New York Times”. The biggest problem with newsprint is the inability to reach readers like you and I.
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Comments (1 posted):
Blogs and blog-writers while possibly (or likely) quite intelligent in their area of expertise, are most often not qualified to REPORT NEWS with the same training as a journalist.
Biggest mistake you make in this article is the oxymoron of:
"Citizen journalism"
Dictionary.com:
Blog - [Noun] - an online diary; a personal chronological log of thoughts published on a Web page; also called Weblog, Web log
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