Will Blogs Kill Newspapers?
September 20, 2009 by Stephen Kersey
Filed under Business
For more than a decade, newspapers around the United States have offered their content for free online. Due to profits elsewhere, newspapers didn’t worry about giving away their content. But times are changing.
Nowadays, there aren’t profits elsewhere. As a result, newspapers are starting to rethink their strategy regarding giving away their content for free. In fact, plans are in the works to create a pay-per-view type system for online newspaper content.
However, there is one problem — bloggers and their blogs. Most bloggers are happy to keep their content free. As a result, if readers don’t want to pay to read online newspaper content, they will simply move on to a blog that offers similar content. If bloggers can offer high quality content, there will be little reason for readers to shell out money.
Over the next year, we’ll really start seeing a subtle fight between newspapers and blogs. If enough readers move to blogs and shun newspapers, the newspaper industry as we know it may be killed off.
Will you stick with newspapers or switch to blogs? (Image: Flickr)
I think the newspaper industry is already dead in the water! They took to long to look forward to see this coming and now we have already seen some newspapers fold.
Newspaper readers are of the “we don’t trust the internet” era and unfortunately the younger generations prefer to be kept up to date with local/world news in almost real time via social media. The newspaper industry can not compete with free news, all they can do is blog and monetize their blog like the rest of us.