The Future of newspapers

The Economist in their newspaper are arguing that the future of newspapers may be coming to an end. Newspapers at their best held 'governments and companies to account' but are now an 'endangered species'. Circulation of newspapers has been falling in major countries such as America, Australia and many countries in western Europe. Philip Meyer also calculated in his book 'The Vanishing Newspapers' that the first quarter of 2043 will be the moment when newsprint dies in America.  Young people are beginning to read news online and Britons aged between 15 and 24 spend almost 30% less time reading national newspapers. According to the Newspaper Association of America, the number of people employed in the industry feel by 18% between 1990 and 2004. Newspapers are now spending less on journalism and are trying to attract younger readers by shifting the mix of their stories towards entertainment and subjects which may seem more relevant to peoples daily lives than international and political affairs. The decline however may not be as harmful so society as some fear, the Economist believe that as Democracy survived the huge television decline since the 1950s, and will surely survive the decline to come. Internet has expanded the court and anyone looking or information has never been better equipped, people no longer have to trust national newspapers or local city papers, sites such as Google draw together sources from around the world and Britain's version of the Guardian has nearly as half as many readers in America as it does at home. Furthermore, citizen journalists and bloggers have now closed the world of professional editors and anyone with a keyboard and internet connection have become citizen journalists.