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Newspapers No Longer The AP's Bread And Butter

AP chairman Dean Singleton only used the words "Internet" and "websites" once each in a recent address, and "online" didn't come up at all.  Still, Singleton's remarks made clear that traditional newspapers are losing ground to new media.

Penton Media Disallows Raises, New Workers

The economy's not good, and the powers that be at Penton Media seem sure it's going to grow worse.  As a result, the company will not grant raises or hire new employees, and it's looking for other places to save money, as well.

Old Media, Time To Find The Missing Link

There is an inherent competitiveness within the media industry, and any given entity goes about its business as though parallel organizations don’t exist – and throwing the competition a hyperlink is tantamount to endorsement. After all, if you sell shoes, you wouldn't willingly direct customers to another shoe store, would you?

An Evolution From Journalism To Blogalism

It's important to remember that what we understand journalism to be now isn't always what journalism was, not even close, if you take it back to its green beginnings. How it is now, the format and structure of it was born of certain logistical necessities related to print, and later, broadcast; but media is changing, and in a big way, again.

Hail And Farewell, Print Media

Old Media is in its final throes, as a New Media carillon tolls dismally in the distance, and the potential mourners are too busy with their mobiles to care about the inescapable grip of entropy upon the dying body politic of the newspaper industry.