Future of news threatened by move away from traditional sources

Posted on May 10, 2005
Filed Under Journalism |

Required reading.  Lifted from Wired piece Bruce spotted referencing …

What’s the future of the news business? This report to Carnegie Corporation of New York offers some provocative ideas.

"…the Internet is already clearly ahead of other media among the young. According to the Magid survey, young news consumers say that the Internet, by a 41-to-15 percent margin over second ranked local TV, is “the most useful way to learn.” And 49 percent say the Internet provides news “only when I want it” (a critical factor to this age group) versus 15 percent for second-ranked local TV. This audience, the future news consumers and leaders of a complex, modern society, are abandoning the news as we’ve known it, and it’s increasingly clear that a great number of them will never return to daily newspapers and the national broadcast news programs".

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