Taking off from Leslie's question during the wrapping up of our classroom discussion, in a conference organized by IFRA in Singapore in 28-29 March 2001, MURDOCH MACLENNAN, then Group Managing Director of Associated Newspapers, Ltd., said:
"It's clear that the current electronic revolution is something more than just a new competitor. It's implications run wider and deeper than the earlier challenges of radio and television. Superficially it offers similar threats - new ways of disseminating news, information, entertainment and sport. Underneath it offers a wealth of opportunities for developing and enhancing our core businesses - if we are willing to take them."
Now, more than six years on, IN WHAT WAYS HAS THE INTERNET CHANGED THE NEWSPAPER PUBLISHING INDUSTRY?
(Please limit your answers/comments to a maximum of 250 words and provide a link to a website or the author/title/publication date/page number of a print source that supports your answer)
This assignment is worth 20 points
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I hope the industry survives. I love the feel of a newspaper
The Internet is a page that moves, talks, and talks back. A simple click on the refresh button also allows the reader to see new information.
For me, the newspaper publishing industry is going to be less prominent but that doesn't mean the power of the printed press would be lessened. Provided that everyone would be computer literate, news would be more powerful as it is presented in a more interactive way. In this light, the change in printed news should be somehow different from their online versions.
I have noticed that online versions of news are quickly updated piece by piece. As for the newspapers, its one complete story sent to readers the following day. News writing became a bit more different since the beginning of the Internet.
As for the leg work, journalists are enticed to take more interactive evidence to support their articles. A video would be better than a still picture, and those videos could be captured by a professional video camera or a good camera phone. The Internet also made it easier to send information. journalists even use the Internet to send letters and articles to their editor or to their interviewee.
The Internet is used to interact with people through computers and handle information. Both are of them helps the journalists in their jobs. The Internet evolved the printed press to a better level. One day we would treat web pages as how we treat printed material today.
Thank you for your comment, wheatgerm. Though you are not listed as one of the students in our class, we do welcome relevant contributions to our discussions. Your view represents the existing and still very significant market that is loyal to the so-called traditional print media.
The arrival of online journalism has challenged the primacy of news. The Internet's role in the production and distribution of news affects the printed product in different ways. The revenue base for the printed-paper might be endangered by further loss of readership and advertising revenues. Newspapers as carriers of content have had to yield various functions in the past century to radio and television services, and now there are other categories of information that might migrate, this time to the Net.
The printed-paper risks losing revenue generators such as classified and personnel ads, and thus runs the risk of becoming less profitable. Unexpected competitors now fight in the same arena for the user's attention and the limited advertising money available. Not only does the Internet let existing and new media outlets compete for advertising revenues, it also offers a completely new range of advertising based services.
Newspapers are created by journalists who now have to master a new set of tools to be able to make use of the online medium in the most relevant way. On the one hand, the Internet offers new ways of collecting and reporting information, and the integration of Internet access into the newsroom and economization of the news gathering process might dominate future news production.
Sources:
(1.) Ward, M. (2002). Journalism Online. Focal Press. p.27
(2.) Bookshop- The Future of the Printed Press-challenges in a digital world
LINK: http://www.ejc.nl/hp/fpp/execsum.html
I have so far received submissions from 2 students. In case you are wondering, I am withholding the publication of your answers until after the deadline (so the others won't be tempted to copy :-)
To the rest of the class, I am optimistic that you are thinking about and exerting effort for the assignment ;-)
Enjoy your weekend!
Leslie Hayzel R. Tagala Journalism 113
Answer to the assignment:
In the Publish Asia 2007 conference held last March 28 at the Manila Hotel, Pichai Cheunsuksawadi, IFRA Asia Pacific Regional Committee chairman and editor-in-chief of publishing Co. Ltd. in Thailand said,” technology alone cannot change the newspaper but people” (www.mb.com.ph).Aligned with what Pichai said, it can be supported with what Diana Lewis concluded in her essay “Online News? A New Genre?” that “Genres change when the community change” (www.mb.com.ph).
With these two statements from Pichai and Lewis, I believed that the internet has nothing to do with the changed of the newspaper publishing industry. On my opinion, it is the people ( the audience of the information that was been disseminated) who changed the newspaper industry, so to change the question, “ In what ways has the people pleased by the internet to change the newspaper publishing industry?”
There are two ways how the internet pleased the people to change the newspaper publishing industry: first, it’s good for globalization; and second, it provides a new way to improve proper writing of news stories.
The first one, Globalization(Smith et al,1998), can be both benefiting for the journalist and his/her readers. It can benefit the readers, because of relevant characteristics of electronic communication that the internet can provide to the readers. According to Lewis, it is relevant because there is an integration of coding mechanism (writing, sound, image and videos), it accumulates a diverse information objects in a single textual space and lastly, there are different patterns of interaction (www.mb.com.ph). In addition, from the paper presented to the CALARBARZON Communication Convention held on September 25, 2006 at La Salle- Batangas by Danilo Araña Arao, because of online newspaper, it is ready for anything and readers will not wait for the next issue (www.bulatlat.com). To journalists, it benefits them, because journalists can easily present to their readers the sources or other links that will verify the article they have written, and also internet can be a great help to the journalists to disseminate the information (news) to any part of the globe.
Because many people are starting to go online, the new media helps the newspaper publishing industry to provide a new way to improve paper writing of news stories. This idea became the aims in the Publish Asia 2007 conference, to provide publishers and other print industry members a vital source of information that will help them keep up with current challenges (www.mb.com.ph).
There are many innovations happened to make journalism effective. From newspaper, radio and television came next, and now, the online journalism. Even though internet is the people’s choice to gather information, newspapers are still alive to provide what its readers needs and wants. This proves that newspaper is still the God of Journalism like what Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News Corp, owner of 175 newspapers around the world said,” Today the Newspaper is just a paper, Tomorrow, it can be a destination”. In other words, the newspapers will become like the Internet portals, and the Yahoos, Googles and the MSNs will become like newspapers (www.internetworldstats.com).
” Today the Newspaper is just a paper, Tomorrow, it can be a destination.”
-Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News Corp, owner of 175 newspapers around the world
Sources: Richardson,J.E., Franklin, B.,Hamer,M.Hanna, M. & Kinsey, M. (2005)Key Concepts in Journalism Studies.London: Sage Publication Ltd.
Mamanglu,S.(March 29,2007).Publishers See no Threat in online newspapers. Retrieved June 20, 2007 from http://www.mb.com.ph/issues/2007/03/29/MAIN2007032990688.html
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No author(n.d.). Will Internet Stop the Press?.Retrieved June 20,2007 from http://www.internetworldstats.com/pr/edi006.htm#6
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http://www.bulatlat.com/news/6-36/6-36-online.html
Caught in the Web
by:Farah Sevilla
I think internet or the World Wide Web has affected the newspaper publishing industry in several ways, both good and bad. However the extent of its effects is still immeasurable, and can only be defined by the readers themselves.
First, because of this technology, several newspapers ventured into online publishing or posting news may be more up-to-date unlike in the traditional production of newspapers which takes so much time. The news became more accessible and in a way more volatile to news delivery.
However, this also has bad effects to the print media. An example is in China were the newspaper publishing industry is going down due to the lack of advertising having less income, while the Internet or online media is 'skyrocketing'.The typical newspaper pricing cannot cope- up with the surplus of computer services such as the internet. The Internet wherein almost everything is accessible is good but the tradition of news printing is still an inevitable factor that should be considered.
Secondly, the Internet in relation to blogging has allowed any individual to express his thought and ideas, even news stories which others may freely see. On the other hand, the credibility of the authors would require further verification.
Lastly internet gives a port for infinite news storage and delivery, the compressed data of webpages multiplied by the number of news websites definitely encompass the storage capability of a single news print.
The cheaper price and more accessible web are the main causes of this phenomenon.
References:
http://www.editorsweblog.org/news/2006/05/china_print_internet_media_clash.php
http://www.jour.unr.edu/j705/IN.BANNING.INTERNETEFFECT.HTML
http://justacrazyjournalist.blogspot.com/
Internet has given journalism an “alternative form” through blogs and websites like what most newspapers do today to cater the growing online audience and to broaden its readership. These online publications beat the print (and broadcast) media in terms of immediacy. Journalists who manage these websites have access to the Web anytime. They can easily update the earlier reports posted in the websites or blogs. Danilo Araña Arao, an Assistant Professor of Journalism in the University of the Philippines Diliman, said in his article “The Practice of Online Journalism in the Philippines: Personal Observations” that the online publications have the authority of print with the speed and immediacy of broadcast media.
In addition, “online publications do not have specific deadlines that must be met since updates can be done anytime” he added. The “articles may change several times in one day depending on the fluidity of the situation.” Readers do not have to wait for the next issue of the newspapers to know the necessary updates about the issues.
Aside from that, readers are able to interact with the writers and even contribute necessary information for the journalist. That is why we have this new trend we call “participatory journalism” (“Blogging, Journalism and Credibility” Rebecca MacKinnon). With this, a ‘blogger’ may assume the role of a journalist. However, this new trend has caused several questions and debates regarding if it is really right to call a blogger a journalist.
Ten years ago, we had a neighbor who subscribed to the Manila Bulletin. Whenever I visit his grandchildren to play with them, i always loved the smell of newspapers stacked in his lobby. Lolo, as we would call him, was 63 at that time, and every morning, he would read the neswpapers and listen to AM radio simultaneously, while drinking his coffee and eating his pan de sal.
today, MY parents would race each other to the internet every morning, check the PDI online, turn on CNN and cook breakfast while waiting for us rascals to wake up.
in contrast with my parents, i am the one religiously buying newpapers. i guess i like the idea that i'm one of the people who keep the "tradition" of searching the whole town early in the morning to look for a newspaper. And oftentimes i get mocked by my parents because they get to "read" the news even before i get to ride a jeep to buy mine.
savings: Jeepfare-P15,PDI-P20 = P35
According to the international symposium on online journalism held friday, people should not be scared of this new medium. instead, they must come to realize that newspapers and OJ are moving forward together.(http://journalism.utexas.edu/onlinejournalism/detail.php?story=222&year=2007)
the life long competition between broadcast media and print media had been unmerciful, knowing that the earlier is more immediate, practical, and makamasa than the latter.
with OJ, the newspapers in print would now have the chance to prove that taking up journalism is not a lost cause, and be up to par with the network giants who claim themselves outstanding in news and current affairs.
unfortunately, lolo wasn't able to experience the internet anymore. If he still is alive, I wonder if he'd still be subscribing to the manila bulletin, or instead go online during the morning while listening to his ipod.
I dont have a specific source to support my answer but i relied on previous discussions from previous journ subjects (err, may source pala ako!).
thenewspaper industry has changed for the worse since the booming of internet news.
Advertisers also tend to advertise their goods on the net today thus declining ads on papers and broadcast media. This in turn forces some publications who have not established a strong readership to close for 70% of a paper's income is from ads.
"Newsrooms shrunk by layoffs and battered by bloggers, are seeing their traditional audiences shrink. Daily newspapers lost 1.2 million readers in the six months that ended in March, down to 45.5 million. Online newspaper readership grew to 56 million (sullivan, washington post.com)."
Also, " This also goes to tv, both free and cable, and radio. This sudden turn of the modern audience the new medium is because it has brought the feature of immediate feedback that is lacking from papers and broadcasting. People are also given the option to choose their desired news (easier navigability).
In order to catch with the times, papers are forced to do better and sometimes (or most of the time)to go over the top and do sensationalised news or more indepth kind of journalsim.
All in all, internet news has changed newsppaer publishing in a very big way.
reference: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/13/AR2006061300929.html
As the Internet Grows Up, the News Industry Is Forever Changed
By Patricia Sullivan
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, June 19, 2006; 12:00 AM
The fast progress of internet greatly affects the life style of people. People now are enjoying themselves in surfing the net whether for pure fun or for educational purposes. The internet perhaps became the primary source of information for the majority, if not for all. No doubt internet has penetrated the so called “mainstream media”.
This popularity of the internet gives problem to the other medium of mass communication most especially to the newspaper which has a difficulty in competing with the others in giving immediate news. Newspapers can’t have breaking news which television, radio and internet can.
The internet has become a great competitor of the newspaper industry. According to the website http://www.washingtonpost.com, advertisers now are rushing to be part of the internet industry and I think it’s mainly because of its popularity. As internet gains advertisers the newspaper industry is loosing them and this greatly affects their publication. Any business can’t survive without money. Newspapers, like any other, needs money to still operate.
In internet too, readers can choose the topic they prefer to read. They just need to type the title of the lead and presto it will be in front of them. So it’s like saying that the internet is for everyone because anything you want is here. Newspaper is trying to compete with the net by putting stories that will fit the taste of the majority (more space for showbiz news). They also try to make their papers glossier and more colorful to be even with the net. In this way they can have a better market share.
Reference:
http://www.washingtonpost.com
With the continuous innovation and technological advancements nowadays, we can't resist but to accept these with the concept of "benefits" from them.
The internet primarily gave a big help to every one of us. In the field of print media, internet has been a passage of news stories. We have already news shown in the computers through the internet and would continue to flourish. In this manner, some news articles were not being published and were only shown through such innovations. On the other hand, some journalists prefer to write their articles through the internet instead of the print media.
Internet helps many newspaper companies in spreading their news to their cat'ered audiences.
The Internet vs. Traditional Media: Convergence or Competition
Yankee Group - 12/1/1999 - 12 Pages - ID: YANL224645
URL: http://www.marketresearch.com/product/display.asp?productid=224645
The Internet is growing fast like wildfire with its capacity for bigger media and “immediate” content. Nowadays, the newspaper publishing industry is trying to cope with the hype of the Internet.
From ink and paper, the newspaper industry is starting to use the Internet as an alternative way to convey information. They publish an online edition of their respective papers like the national dailies and even region-based media outfits. Most of them could be read for free while some require paid subscriptions.
It has come to mind to these publishers that the internet also provides the interaction that print cannot deliver. The immediacy of the interaction with the readers. It provides faster and specific (search capability) access to information. They provide online bulletins, downloads of various content and many more. Though the publishers are trying to adapt their “papers” for immediacy by the use of the SMS, much of the attention has been through the net.
Not only is the interaction immediate but content too. News happens anytime and anywhere. The newspaper is printed early in the day while the online version could be changed and updated up to the minute news could be found. It is this convenience that the publishers have invested in the Internet. The reading public could even be journalists at their own right – “user-generated content”.
However, publishers still rely on profits from the print version because advertising on the net is not yet lucrative in the Philippines but U.S.-based companies are profitable.
Supporting reference: http://www.pixelbridge.com/articles/index.php?p=6
Because of the popularity of the Internet, newspaper publishing industries also began to create their own websites that can easily be accesible to their readers. PDI has "inq7.net", Philippine Star has "Philstar.com" and Manila Bulletin has "mb.com". They may have seen the Internet as a big competition but in the end, they used it to further the scope of their ability in information dissemination. Despite the creation of official websites, these newspaper publications are still thriving and still producing millions of copies everyday. Some, though, have observed that the readership of the newspapers are lessening or weakening. This is not beacsue of the Internet but because of the content, rather than medium. "Newspapers and television are getting hit the most as they decide that their role is to 'make the news' instead of 'reporting the news'. Sensationalizing news in order to sell should be achieved as much as possible."
sources:
www.gerrymcgovern.com/nt/2004/nt_2004_08_23_blogging.htm - 19k -
Analyzing online and traditional newspapers, the researcher identified some of the differences of the two (that somehow has helped change the newspaper publishing industry) such as the following: First, online newspaper provides some information that cannot be found in the traditional newspaper like horse racing results, horoscope and soap opera updates. (Asistio, 1991) The traditional newspaper is limited by the day’s available “news hole” or the amount of news that can be printed. Only a small percentage of the news is gathered on a given day actually makes it into the printed paper, but the electronic version has no such limitation. (Dominick, 1999) Consequently, information that does not make it to the traditional paper is available online. Photos, full text of speeches and reports, lengthy interviews and additional background material and sidebars that would otherwise wind up on the cutting room floor are available to interested online subscribers. (Dominick, 1999) The online version injects the notion of interactivity with readers. Electronic bulletin boards allow readers to ask questions to reporters and editors about the choices they made while researching and writing the story. This two-way capacity represents a significant departure from the traditional one-way flow of information from paper to readers greatly improves the channels of feedback between source and receiver. (Dominick, 1999)
Sources:
Dominick, R. Joseph.1999.The Dynamics of Mass Communication. USA:McGraw Hill Companies, Inc.
Asistio, Maria Katrina. 1999. The Internet as a Form of Mass Media. Baguio: University of the Philippines.
Darwin Magalong J113
The internet is considered to be the new and the strongest threat for the newspaper publishing industry. The dissemination of news, advertisements and other informations that once held by the newspaper industry is now provided by the internet. The competition between the newspaper and the internet has resulted to the newspaper's profits to declined. This has led to some predictions that the newspaper industry will shrink or even disappear. Now, the newspaper industry has lost millions of readers, and profits. Newspaper industry are trying to find the story or news and other informations that readers are craving to read in order for the newspaper industry to survived.
Source:
As the Internet Grows Up, the News Industry Is Forever Changed
By Patricia Sullivan
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, June 19, 2006; 12:00 AM
-http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/13/AR2006061300929_3.html
The Internet has not made the newspaper obsolete, it nevertheless, has become an indispensable business tool for any media enterprise. Indeed, it is indispensable for any enterprise of a certain size.
In a sense, the Internet is much more like „paper" than like „news". A „paper" that you can use for a million things, among them to distribute news.
In the US, newspaper sales have stayed at the same level for 20 years - even though the population has increased by 25 per cent. Web audiences have boomed but newspaper sites have struggled to keep up.The real handicap, one delegate confessed, is starting with a traditional newspaper model and trying to adapt it for the web. Wrapping the cast iron model of a 200-year-old newspaper around the amorphous chaos of the internet is seemingly impossible. And although the online industry is now more than 10 years old, the pace of change has simply been too rapid for newspapers.
Newspaper websites face enormous challenges from citizen journalism, rapid changes in online trends and technologies, fragmented audiences and lack of revenue sources. On top of that they often have to lock horns with management teams that are unwilling or unable to understand the internet environment.
www.interactivepublishing.net
www.journalism.com
I still posted late comments here, though these will no longer be considered for grading. Please observe set deadlines (that is one of the most crucial elements in the journalism industry).
Print will eventually phase out as it gives way to new tools that are more interactive and rich. Readers are giving up flat printed pages for online, interactive, participative, collaborative and rich media content such as Online Portals, Blogs, Social Networks, RSS, Mobiles and Podcasts.
Here’s few useful links on digital publishing / delivery
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01SrlU41RJk
http://www.pressmart.net
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