The post-journalism age

The age of big media may be over for good
(A George Will Column in the BJ Tuesday, April 26, 2005)
The circulation of daily U. S. newspapers is 55.2 million, down from 62.3 million in 1990. The percentages of adults who say they read a paper “yesterday” are ominous: 65 and older, 60 per cent; 50-64, 52 per cent; 30-49, 29 per cent; 18-29, 23 per cent; Americans 8 to 18 spend an average of six hours and 21 minutes a day with all media of all sorts, but just 43 minutes with print, The combine viewership of the network evening newscasts is 28.8 million, down from 52.1 million in 1980. Hence the sponsorship of Metamucil and Fixodent. Perhaps we are entering what David T. Z. Mindich, formerly of CNN, calls a post-journalism age.”

Newsroom ranks keep dwindling
(News Round-up in the Guild Reporter, April 15,2005)
As go newspaper circulation numbers, so go the numbers in the newsroom, according go the latest census of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, the number of full-time journalists declined 4 per cent over the past four years, to 54,134 from 56,383 in 2001.