Robert Niles - 10,000 Words http://www.mediabistro.com/10000words Where Journalism and Technology Meet Copyright 2013 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:51:38 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Why Studying Journalism Is Still a Good Idea News of the death of newspapers never stops. A LinkedIn analytics post showed that newspapers are the fastest shrinking industry in terms of job numbers. The Newspaper Association of America released statistics that showed ad sales were down 7.3 percent in 2011. On his blog, Alan D. Mutter added some more dismal facts—the last time ad sales were this low was 1984, and the combined ad sales of all U.S. newspapers equal only two-thirds of that of Google. Though digital advertising increased 6.8 percent, it still failed to make up the 9.2 percent loss of print.

And so, Robert Niles at the Online Journalism Review asked a pertinent question, “Is any university in America still admitting students as print journalism majors?” continued…

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]]> Mona Zhang http://www.mediabistro.com/10000words/print-journalism-major-degree-newspapers-dying-industry-jobs-education_b11556#disqus_thread http://www.mediabistro.com/10000words/print-journalism-major-degree-newspapers-dying-industry-jobs-education_b11556 http://www.mediabistro.com/10000words/?p=11556 Thu, 15 Mar 2012 11:54:45 +0000