Posts Tagged ‘ newspaper ’

Newspapers Facing Extinction

Jun 23rd, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: General

We talk a lot at Podcasting News about how new media gives anyone the potential to publish to people all around the world.
This poses challenges to traditional media, though, especially newspapers, because they are faced with tens of thousands of nimble new competitors. As a result, newspapers are losing advertisers to Web media, losing future [...]



Newspapers Have Lost Their Future To Internet Media

Mar 13th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Educational Podcasts, Podcasting Research, Podcasting Statistics

New research from comScore confirms one of the more important new media trends - that young people are abandoning newspapers for Internet media.
As a result, newspaper readership is getting smaller and older.
“That current generations are growing up getting their news online for free is an indicator that print circulations are likely to continue their decline,” [...]



Newspaper Revenues Are Plummeting As Attention Moves Online

Nov 21st, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: General, Podcasting Research, Podcasting Statistics

The latest numbers from the Newspaper Association of America show that newspaper advertising revenue is plummeting as attention and ad dollars move online.
The numbers are downright ugly:

Total advertising expenditures at newspaper companies were $10.9 billion for the third quarter of 2007, a 7.4 percent decrease from the same period a year earlier.
Spending for print ads [...]