The Decline Of Print Journalism?

By
Morgen Snowadzky
 on July 23, 2009 8:13 PM | | Comments (6)

I'm not sure if anyone else heard, but Ann Arbor is the first major US city to have it's major daily publication fall under. Thats right ladies and gentlemen, the one city in Michigan to take the least impact from the auto industry crash, where the University of Michigan is located, this city no longer will have a paper distributed to houses. The Ann Arbor News will be shutting its doors any day now, in late July. What was once the Ann Arbor News will now be AnnArbor.com. Here's the catch, people who were employed by The Ann Arbor News are not automatically employed by the website which is replacing it. This makes me slightly uneasy, since I am someone who is interested in going into the field of journalism, not the newspaper but still print journalism. What does this mean for other major city publications? Will the Philadelphia Inquirer go down next? Or will it be the Miami Herald? I am not sure I want to find out. But then I wonder if the transition to internet journalism is inevitable. Without news websites people will end up getting their news from not so credible sources on the internet.

6 Comments

By Jena on July 28, 2009 1:05 PM

That is exactly why I gave up my dream of being a journalist like three years ago. I figured out what was going to happen with the economy and most, if not all, newspapers; so I quickly chose another dream for my future. It was pretty depressing at the time.

By Anonymous on July 28, 2009 1:06 PM

That is exactly why I gave up my dream of being a journalist like three years ago. The Philadelphia Inquirer was my publication of choice. Then I figured out what was going to happen with the economy and most, if not all, newspapers; so I quickly chose another dream for my future. It was pretty depressing at the time.

By Jena on July 28, 2009 1:07 PM

That is exactly why I gave up my dream of being a journalist like three years ago. The Philadelphia Inquirer was my publication of choice. Then I figured out what was going to happen with the economy and most, if not all, newspapers; so I quickly chose another dream for my future. It was pretty depressing at the time.

By Jena on August 1, 2009 1:15 PM

Oh my gosh! My computer definitely messed that up. I am so sorry.

By Jena on August 1, 2009 1:19 PM

Oh my gosh! My computer majorly messed this up. I am so sorry!

By Morgen Snowadzky on August 4, 2009 4:42 PM

Though I see that newspapers will be less and less common, I am confident that journalism as a trade won't be lost but more so just go through a transformation.

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