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[Swampfox10mm]

This will happen by the end of the year. All but USA Today.

I hope they fail.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2012/02/22/gannett-building-paywalls-around-all-its-papers-except-usa-today/

[jfromtheway]

The newspaper industry is in shambles and struggling to keep afloat. It has probably been the hardest hit industry since the .com-boom and new media information age began. It makes you wonder how resourceful, useful, and powerful new media can be in relation to the old guard, and how it will influence the future of news media. The way newspaper companies react to these changes usually makes most people cringe. And this article is about news companies restricting how much information they choose to share with the public, because no one reads newspapers anymore. Both of my parents have MAs in journalism and my dad was a newspaper editor and editorial writer for well over 30 years. My mom is also an editor and travel writer. Both of them are still successful writers, but they've been affected by this shift multiple times over the last ten or so years.

I don't necessarily think it's a bad thing, though. Even if the amount of fluff increases and online niche markets bring the news to the people who want to hear the news that is more agreeable with their point of view... information becomes more widely available than it used to be, when it was confined to subscribers, or those who bought cheaply priced newspapers. Maybe that's a good thing, I don't know. I'm interested in other points of view. Regardless, I obviously enjoy rambling on about the topic.

[The Floating World]

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[northway]

Good. The alternative is to end up with a world without newspapers (or, at the very least, a world where all the newspapers are owned by Murdoch).

[Zyzyfer]