The State of the News Media 2009
PEJ Finds Audience Migration and Recession Reduce Time Journalism Has to Sort Out Finances
Two developments converged in the last year to shorten the time that journalism has left to reinvent its business model and secure its financial future, according to a new comprehensive study on the State of the American News Media.
First, the audience migration to the web accelerated substantially in 2008, and even though most of that growth was at traditional news destinations, the financial impact of that was a negative one, according to the ...
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Theres a huge difference between N.Y., L.A., S.F., than small towns across this nation. There will always be a market for small town newspapers because people want to know who their neighbors are doing and what laws their friends have broke. Being noisy is a peragative of small town people.