4. Journalism matters. We live in a much more
interconnected world where information is ever-more
critical to our lives... Yet at the same time journalism is
itself undergoing profound changes for social, economic
and technological reasons. - Charlie Beckett
5. Some Statistics
As of 2010, 166 newspapers in the United States have closed.
Since 2001, an estimated 15,000 journalists have lost their jobs in the United
Kingdom.
A 2010 study found that from 2007 to 2009, newspaper circulation dropped
in many developed countries - 25 percent in the UK, 30 percent in the US
and 17 percent in Canada.
The Newspaper Association of America reports $798 million in print losses
for the first half of 2012 compared to the same period a year ago. There was a
$32 million gain in digital. The ratio of losses to gains is 25 to 1.
Over the last five years, an average of 15 papers, or just about 1% of the
industry, has vanished each year. A growing number of executives predict
that in five years many newspapers will offer a print home-delivered
newspaper only on Sunday, and perhaps one or two other days a week that
account most print ad revenue.
6. Signs of the Times: Closures, Layoffs
The New York Times is considering selling the Boston
Globe, once a flagship newspaper of the United States.
In 2009, the Rocky Mountain News, Colorado’s oldest
newspaper closed.
In 2012, The Times-Picayune announced it would cut
back print circulation to three days a week.
Drastic decline of foreign news bureaux.
8. Diverse skills - writing, editing, video, audio, photo
Social media: Knowledge of how to promote yourself
and how to use social media for your work - looking for
news, analyzing comments, engaging with readers and
creating sources.
Citizen journalism - the democratization of news
production and new forms of audience engagement,
cooperation
31. The move toward mobile holds some promising options for news producers. To
capitalize on it the industry will need to do a better job than it did in the
desktop realm of quickly coming to understand audience behavior and developing
technology and revenue models to adapt to it.
