Internet as a threat to newspapers 31 Articles

by Elizabeth Ducie

"There will be blood on the streets and it will be over for some newspapers." This was the view of Cameron Yuill, CEO of Adgent 007, talking about the current turmoil in the newspaper industry on the BBC Money Programme r...read more

by Patrick Sills

For the past three years, I've been employed as a driver for my city's newspaper. Once the papers are produced, my job is to get them to the foot carriers, stores, and vending machines situated along my route. In addition,...read more

by Paul Schingle

The ironic headline just the other day in the Chicago Tribune read, "Tribune Corp. files for bankruptcy." The article went on to say that the Chicago Tribune and its smaller papers including "Hoy" (The Spanish language pa...read more

by Steve Tarter

I didn't expect to get whirled into the vortex of journalistic change when I joined the Peoria Journal Star 10 years ago. Newspapers have always been there. They've been been part of our culture: "Extra, extra, read all ab...read more

by Colin Dennis

"People don't actually read newspapers," Marshall McLuhan, the Canadian philosopher, said. "They get into them every morning like a hot bath." For as long as I can remember I have been a huge fan of newspapers and the ones...read more

by Ryan Gray

Although it may be impossible to believe for most people, there are members of our society who either don't have access to the Internet, don't know how to use it or are not comfortable working with computers. That's why th...read more

by Audrey Levine

I think newspapers are fast becoming an endangered species. It's a sad fact, and one I really don't want to accept, being a reporter at a local newspaper company. Newspapers have a long history and can be traced back ...read more

by Erich Heinlein

I am going to suggest something scary. Not only is the internet not a threat to newspapers I would even say it will actually help improve both the newspaper and print industry as a whole. While some of the smaller communit...read more

by T.Dall

I believe that journalists are the eyes and the cognitive brain of society. The demand for the 'conventional journalist' has been steadily decreasing through the recent years, largely owing to the outbreak of a phenomenon ...read more

by Joe Owens

At one time in our world the only way to collect news was to listen to what your neighbors had to say, especially in regard to which other members of your tribe would up being dinosaur food. Knowing what the weather might ...read more

by Benjamin Melancon

The Internet can be an opportunity to newspapers, but too many value control over successful journalism: The San Jose Mercury News and Gary Webb The San Jose Mercury News' location in Silicon Valley is not the first reaso...read more

by Paul Lines

Is the Internet a threat to printed newspapers? Despite popular opinion, I do not think so. The reasons for this opinion are based upon the fact that they serve different purposes. With the Internet there is a need to be ...read more

by Tina Clancy

Newspapers were the first source of information and have lasted through the inventions of radio and television; can they last through the invention of the Internet? The internet has become the fastest way for people to st...read more

by Celia Craske

The internet is definately a threat to newspapers but not perhaps in the way that many imagine. The internet's threat to newspapers as a source of information is only part of an ongoing attack by the media. In spite of thi...read more

by David Brown

It is interesting that many believe that our present financial crisis is causing the threat to the newspaper/print media to take a nose dive. Well, in this writer's opinion, and he certainly does not have all of the answe...read more

by Aldo Bonincontro

In the first years of Internet, I also was among those who thought or feared that journals on paper could disappear, replaced by the more comfortable and richer offer of a newspaper on-line, with links, coloured pictures, ...read more

by Bob Schmidt

The Internet is not a threat to newspapers, but it is competition. Before the days of computers, and cable TV, newspapers ruled the daytime news. The evening news belonged to the big three television networks. For several ...read more

by Rosie Brooks

Every morning, when I sit down at breakfast, there is a newspaper on the table. If I'm in a rush, perhaps I'll just read the headlines or the first couple of lines of an article. If I have more time, I will flick through a...read more