[View the story "The future of news media" on Storify ]The future of news media How can news organizations adapt to the changing media landscape? Storified by AJAMStream · Tue, Oct 15 2013 10:44:58
Many factors have contributed to the prevailing narrative that traditional news is on the decline. Millennials seem less interested in news than older generations. More distractions compete for Americans' attention. Losses in advertising revenue have hit print publications, and television news viewership is slipping year by year as well. Journalists have faced increasing pressure from the government not to report on sensitive or negative information, and their sources are too worried over NSA surveillance to talk to them anyway.
As traditional news outlets adapt to confront these challenges and new competitors arise, what does the media landscape of the future look like?
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The chart above shows the overall decline in television and print consumption as Americans form new habits of digital news consumption. Among young people, however, studies show less engagement with the news overall:
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Not only are people getting their news online, whether on a computer or smartphone, but many are now turning to their social networks to find news that's relevant to them. While Twitter has become a strong platform for news and journalism, people surveyed also get news via Facebook, Google+, and LinkedIn.
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Newspapers have been struggling with readership and finances for some time, but some worry the slip in millennial television news consumption could hurt the broadcast industry as well.
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People under 30 are more interested in the satirical approach to news offered by Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert:
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More and more consumers are eschewing traditional news outlets for online content:
The Rise of Online Videopewresearchcenter
At the same time, journalists have found that squeezed resources and government pressure have made their jobs more difficult. A recent report by the Committee to Protect Journalists outlines the increased pressure journalists have faced since 9/11:
#homework a report on the #Obama administrations assault on #pressfreedom and #globalprivacy I think we've entered a new era. An #era of #cyberparanoiasceball2
Two veteran journalists described the current climate for journalists:
“This is the most closed, control freak administration I’ve ever covered,” said David E. Sanger, veteran chief Washington correspondent of The New York Times.cpj.org
New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan wrote earlier this year, “it’s turning out to be the administration of unprecedented secrecy and unprecedented attacks on a free press.”cpj.org
Online, many shared their thoughts on the problems facing the news industry and how it might adapt:
@AJAMStream reliable sources are not talking to journalists fearing their emails/texts will be somehow intercepted #AJAMStreamMike Witt Davis
@AJAMStream #AJAMStream Corporate owned media gets worse by the second. Indy media is expanding but doesn't have the resources.Shem Shemmingan
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