THE DEATH OF PRINT JOURNALISM AND RISE OF DIGITAL MEDIA
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Charlotte Gagnier
"Newspapers will never die, they will just move to a new address.”
- Ken Paulson
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50% of Americans cite the Internet as their main source for national
and international news
– Pew Research Centre
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It is the main source of news for 71% of those 18-29
– Pew Research Centre
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Only 28% of Americans cite newspapers as their
main source of news
– Pew Research Centre
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With increasing digital literacy, online media is easy to access and most is free
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New technologies such as iPads and Smartphones make it easy to consume informa@on online any @me, any place
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This change in the way people choose to consume informa@on has led to the rise of
sites like BuzzFeed, Gawker and The Huffington Post
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Digital media offers variety: ar@cles, videos, galleries, ‘lis@cles’ and long-‐form journalism means there’s
something for everyone
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With readers leaving print, adver@sing dollars have followed
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Investment in newspaper adver@sing will be 16.4 billion US dollars in 2016,
4 billion less than in 2011
-‐ eMarketer
For newspapers to survive they must adapt and move online
Vice, The Guardian and The Daily Mail all now have a strong digital presence
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Through digital media, readers have changed journalism -‐they can comment,
share and even produce content
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“the boundaries between journalism and non-‐journalism in cyberspace are
becoming even blurrier than in the mass media”
-‐ Barbie Zelizer
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Ci@zen Journalism -‐ the collec@on, dissemina@on, and analysis of news and
informa@on by the general public, especially by means of the Internet.
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We can now play a part in major stories -‐ giving voices to those who previously
weren’t heard -‐ like during the Arab Spring
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“There is massive civic informa@on sharing going on in cyberspace that increasingly tends to bypass the classical modes of
journalism produc@on and dissemina@on”
-‐ Barbie Zelizer
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But the informa@on collected is not filtered and not objec@ve like tradi@onal media
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Tradi@onally journalism is objec@ve, presen@ng the facts, unslanted by opinion
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This no longer sells -‐ people want emo@onally charged, controversial narra@ves that keep us engaged.
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As readers we have the amazing opportunity to read from different writers
and sources almost without limit.
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The challenge is to stay open to different opinions, read from many authors and sources.
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In this new age of digital journalism we must use our digital literacy to develop
balanced and informed opinions
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