Death Of Print, Now In Chart Form

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by Colby Hall | 8:40 am, December 31st, 2009

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As if we needed more evidence of the death of newspapers — at least in print form. Business Insider posted this chart mapping the growth and decline of total workers employed by news papers over the 62 years. And while it seems like it could be a banal point, the graphic depiction of the contraction of the print industry is somehow still shocking.

Jay Yarow and Kamelia Angelova write for Business Insider:

Newspapers had a nice run from the 1970s to the 1990s. Unfortunately, as this chart from the Bureau of Labor Statistics makes clear — by way of Marketwatch — it’s over.

Newspaper employment has utterly collapsed in the last 15 years, with employment numbers now around where they were in the mid-1950s.

The good news: It’s a great opportunity. The next decade will give birth to new forms of reporting, more in tune with today’s technology and news consumption habits.

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disgusted

Of what value is a newspaper/book/ any printed matter if they CAN NOT READ?
http://www.sailrabbits.com Magister

The next decade will give birth to new forms of reporting, more in tune with today’s technology and news consumption habits.

…if we could only figure-out how to monetize it.
pyrope

It’s not the reader who has made the newspapers fail, it is the content presented to the reader. By the end of the coming decade, the NY Slimes, the Boston Glob, the Philidelphia Enquirer, and all the other left-wing rags will be out of business. The unfortunate part of that is we will not have anything with which to line our bird cages, kindle fires, use as packing for dishes, and wrap our garbage in. Oh well, everyone must occasionally make sacrifices.
http://www.sailrabbits.com Magister

I’m purposefully not linking to my own treatment, but I’m kind of surprised that it’s been more than a couple of weeks, yet I’m still not seeing much media-press about France’s $905m bailout of the French press, including a free newspaper subscription to those between 18 and 24.

It’d never work here, but the 12% retention rate could theoretically benefit a deep pocket, who’d like to try.
Ted

pyrope – wrong – your right wing rags are having problems as well. The problem is this thing called “the internets”. I used to buy at least three papers a day including the NYT. I can get all the info I want on the internets for free – why buy the paper? Has nothing to do with “content presented.”