A few days ago EL PAIS published an article about its director, José Moreno where, during the XII Congress of Digital Journalism in Huesca, he exposed that "in a few years, the paper version of newspapers will be over".
Well, he didn’t say anything new. In fact, we all have heard this kind of opinion or even thought about this sometime. But this time it was José Moreno, director of one of the best newspapers in Spain, an expert , who affirms this. So, we definetly should get used to this statement. And not only to the statement, but to the phenomenom in it. Yes, it is probable that newspapers really disappear.
Of course, there's always the opposite version, like when television appeared and people said “the television is going to end up with other media...and it didn’t”. It us true, but this time is not only a prediction. Statistics do show that. As Moreno said during the conference, "even the assiduous consumers of press of some years ago, are giving it up". But attention, they are giving up press, "not information!".
Now we have to face it. It's like renew or die. The future is no longer in the papers anymore, but in the web.
José Moreno has a ponit... but I don't completely support this idea. In fact, as long as there are people who rather read from paper than from a computer screen, newspapers will fight to survive.
ResponderEliminarYes, it is true, but maybe it won't be worth for newspapers to have a paper edition for just a few people..
ResponderEliminarI don't think that we are "few people". Besides, how many people do you know, that print the slides of the sublects in order not to study from the computer screen? I actually get an incredible headache if I try to study that way. And I don't think that we're few at all! In fact,don't you prefer to touch the sheets while you're reading? For me, that's so important.
ResponderEliminarOh, I was not talking about us, but about people in the future that will give up the paper. If you read the whole article from Jose Moreno, you will see that he actually affirms that everyday more people are giving up it... Sad, yes-
ResponderEliminarI asure you It won't be my case :)
ResponderEliminarMybe, newspapers will end on the rubbish, because anybody will read them, but let's thing: is it really useful for people? I agree with Images' Closet in this point: I'm sure that people (or me at least) don't want to say goodbye to their eyes, and although it was only because of that, I think newspapers and readers will fight to maintain them with us.
ResponderEliminarI hope you are right. There's nothing like reading the news in paper :)
ResponderEliminarTotally agree with both of Images'Closet and YreneLiFe...It's so hard to spend so many time in the computer...
ResponderEliminarI wrote an essay on this topic a few weeks ago for my online journalism class. It was entitled "Printed Press: A chronicle of a death foretold?”
ResponderEliminarIt is a controversial issue for so many reasons. On the one hand, many scholars have decreed the death of the printing press, but others believe that it is not destined to expire and recognize that some means of redesigning and rethinking is needed in order to save the non digital newspaper industry. To the optimistic ones, it’s (like Patricia said) all about "renewing" (For example, some newspapers have shrieked their formats in order to adapt to our don't-have-time-to-read society). On the other hand, there are multiple theories on the future of printed press and how to hold investors from trusting dailies as business opportunities. One interesting approach is Fidler's mediamorphosis theory that states than new media does not substitute traditional media, but rather coexist and reshape into what the public wants.
Some of you were saying that there is nothing like reading the news in paper...but have you considered the possibilities that online newspapers offer? For example, online journals are probably at its best when reacting to an event happening “now” because a news story can be published online in seconds and updated as it develops. Online news are hour-to-hour! Can you do this with a printed newspaper? No, you will have to wait for tomorrow's paper! And, what about citizen participation? You can comment on most online newspapers and give feedback to the journalist that has written the story. And in a printed newspaper? Well, there is always the letter to the editor but it doesn’t imply the same level of interaction, does it?