News sources have been transitioning from paper to electronic distribution of their news in a rapid transition. Many of these sources have been searching and experimenting with ways to get the news to their subscribers.<\/p>\n
The big reason for this switch is because it seems unreasonable to many to receive day-old news with the paper when an article can be written and published in a short amount of time online.<\/p>\n
According to Jam Sadar, a news director for WLNS, there will be a point in time that paper journalism will no longer be existent.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow much do they spend on paper, printing presses, on ink, on the delivery, all the paperboys, all the people who run the delivery?” Sadar said. “They don\u2019t need any of that anymore. They can just spend money on the journalism.”<\/p>\n
TV news reporting is also going in the same downward trend that paper reporting is on. According to Jam, this is because people want to run on their own schedule, not the one that the news channel has chosen for them.<\/p>\n
Generating revenue is a big challenge for some of these companies. Some have resorted to charging fees to subscribers to view articles written by them. According to Sadar, this has caused people to find other news sources<\/p>\n
\u201cI’m guessing fewer people read it but at least they\u2019re making more money on it because just selling digital ads isn\u2019t going to cut [it],\u201d said Jam.<\/p>\n
A panel of four\u00a0journalists consisting of Meegan Holland of MLive, Tricia Bobeda, Paul Henderson of Lansing State Journal, and Sadar discussed how the transition to online publication has gone.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe did it a year ago, we\u2019re doing successful journalism online, won every public service award last year for journalism and it can be done, good journalism can be done online,\u201d said Holland<\/p>\n
According to Henderson, this transition has caused journalism to become a \u201cone man band\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen professors, teachers, whomever started pushing that one man band face from my understanding was you\u2019re going to be expected coming out of school in 2011 to be able to do all of those things and do them well,\u201d said Henderson.<\/p>\n
Jobs are still available with the transition. According to the panel, jobs will continue to exist but many of them will be different from those today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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