It is widely accepted that newspapers, especially metropolitan dailies, are in crisis due to decreasing circulation and declining print advertising revenue while newspaper websites are unable to make substantial profits from their web advertising. The emergence of the Internet and multimedia journalism, with expanded video and audio dimensions, has widened news distribution while adding staff responsibilities for print and digital formats at a time when publishers are cutting costs by laying off and buying out their staffs. Nonetheless newspapers continue to persist in a long, slow transition to digital platforms. Examining this transition utilizing the cases of a few large metro dailies reveals the complexities of their survival and their resilience in an age when readers are increasingly obtaining their news online.
About the presenterMary Lou Nemanic
Mary Lou Nemanic : area chair for both Internet Culture and Working Class Culture. Ph.D. American Studies, M.A.: Mass Communication; B.A.: Journalism, University of Minnesota, and associate professor at Penn State University-Altoona. Research areas: media studies, online media and cultural studies. Author of One Day for Democracy and co-director/founder of Documentary America (http://documentaryamerica.com/). Founder, technical adviser, and contributing editor of the Lightning Gazette (http://thelightninggazette.com) an online magazine of everyday life.