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THe Vanishing Newspaper, December 2004
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THE VANISHING NEWSPAPER
By: Philip Meyer

Saving Journalism In The Information Age

University of Missouri Press
December 2004
269 pages
ISBN: 0826215688
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Non-Fiction

For more than thirty years the newspaper industry has been losing readers at a slow but steady rate. News professionals are inclined to blame themselves, but the real culprit is technology and its competing demands on the public's time. The Internet is just the latest in a long series of new information technologies that have scattered the mass audience that newspapers once held. By isolating and describing the factors that made journalism work as a business in the past, Meyer provides a model that will make it work with the changing technologies of the present and future. He backs his argument with empirical evidence, supporting key points with statistical assessments of the quality and influence of the journalist's product, as well as its effects on business success.

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