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Are less interested in the news to the demise of the newspaper?
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CT ReaderEast.com on 21 December, 2008 09:18:00
 
In 1960, 80 percent of Americans read a daily newspaper. Today it’s closer to
50 percent and falling. Readers are shifting their eyes and ears to online
sources of information, delivered via everything from mobile phones to iPods.
Online news is especially useful because it's usually free and the content can
be easily controlled and personalized.
“We read, listen and watch what we want when we want, and what used to be a
passive one-way conversation is turning into an active relationship. Content
flows both ways.” Says Andrew Simonow, Publisher of CT Reader East .com
On CTReaderEast.com any reader can write the news as they see it. Citizen
journalism and thousands of headlines across the internet make up news found on
this on-line service. More than 4,000 articles are read daily.
Traditional boundaries between the creator and the consumer are becoming eroded
or disappearing altogether. There are newspapers like “Play Bac Presse” in
France written entirely by readers. “OhMyNews” in South Korea is created by
33,000 ‘citizen reporters' and is read by 2 million South Koreans. In the US
the Wisconsin State Journal (the State's second largest selling paper) asks its
readers to go online everyday between 11A.M. and 4 P.M. to vote for the next
day's lead story.
So are less interested in the news to the demise of the newspaper? No, today
there are more news junkies than ever.  Some subscribe to hundreds of feeds
including those from The New York Times, The Hartford Courant, and USA Today,
and use readers like “Google Reader” to read them. So what’s killing the
newspaper? It’s the alternative channels to newsprint, namely the on-lines.
One of the first apps you’ll see on your new iPhone 3G is “The New York
Times”.  The biggest problem with newsprint is the inability to reach readers
like you and I.