So as I have progressed in my Journalism 101 class and worked for the Sagebrush for a while, I have gradually realized that the news media, and more specifically the newspaper industry, is in a period of rapid and defining change.
With the evolution of new technologies and the speed at which information is transferred, many have declared newspapers as dead. In fact, broadcast stations, cable news networks and even to a comparable degree internet news compilers are dead as well. What is now being created in their place are news outlets, in the very broadest sense of the term. TV stations and newspapers are no longer just TV stations or newspapers any more than phone companies are just land line providers. Communications have evolved, and are continuing to do so at a rapid pace. The news media, up until recently, had failed to keep up. They are paying the price, but are also deep in the process of catching up.
The delivery of news is changing to second-by-second updates and alerts, a far cry from the morning and evening papers of our parents' generations. While nobody in the industry seems to know exactly what form this evolution will take, it seems to be a common consensus that the next generation of journalists, of which I am a part, will be the ones to solve this problem.
I'm excited.
So there's that...
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