After jumping around from different topics, yesterday I came to a final decision about what I am going to write about for Junior Theme. At first I was thinking about researching how students are becoming more and more success-driven instead of being learning-driven. But after I thought about it for a while I lost interest in that topic. One of my initial thoughts was to write about something concerning communication in America and how Americans think in certain ways. Then I thought about the newspaper industry and how nowadays many newspaper companies are shutting down. The change in the way America wants to obtain the news is very interesting to me. So my tentative why question is:
Why is the newspaper industry in decline?
The use of online newspapers and the Internet seems like a logical answer, but I want to go deeper and find out why this change of thought occurred. Mr. Bolos also suggested that I look at how the decline in reading newspapers might be over-exaggerated as well. I found a very recent book called
The Death and Life of American Journalism at the Wilmette Public Library that I think will be informative and helpful, in addition to the website/radio shows from
On the Media.
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Claire,
ReplyDeleteYou may want to read: Newspaper Death Watch, a blog authored by Paul Gillin, Research Fellow at the Society for New Communications Research
http://www.newspaperdeathwatch.com/
see also Gillin's essay: How the Coming Newspaper Industry Collapse Will Reinvent Journalism
http://paulgillin.com/gillin/how-the-coming-newspaper-industry-collapse-will-reinvent-journalism/
“Fit to Print” is a documentary film (being filmed in 2010)that takes the viewer on a behind-the-scenes journey through the current upheaval of the newspaper industry. Gillin interviews the film makers:
http://vimeo.com/8696294
Ok thanks Mrs. Gressel!
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