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It shocked me that newspaper and news content in print does not have to die, it may just need to completely change the way it gets distributed.
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This raised yet another question:
Can newspaper organization survive simply by counting on transforming its aggregate bulky print stuff to more streamlined and customized electronic version?

Nobody doubt newspapers will have to do more online if they are to compete with TV network, internet news aggregators like Yahoo and Google.

Living in a time when everybody is busy multitasking all the time, news organization and journalists can only multitask to survive.

Last week, Reuters generously granted $ 100,000 to NewAssignment.net, a website initiated by NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen that invites public to participate in investigative journalism. With the help from Reuters, NewAssignment will hire its first editor starting from spring next year.

This week, fight between newsroom professionals and the newsroom owner, inside and outside American’s fourth largest newspaper L.A Times, escalated.

This past week, Apple Computer just launched its new iTV—a device that can display videos, movies downloaded from interenet on TV set .
The important implication of this, according to media blogger Jeff Jarvis, is—“it levels the playing field. “

Last week Apple announced a heartening market research result showing that it's now the fifth largest retailer of music in the U.S., after Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Target Corp., Best Buy Co. and Amazon.com.

It’s not news that newspapers circulations nowadays, generally speaking, are down because of its rivals on the web, news aggregate sites, bloggers, etc.
One important reason is that readers rely less on newspapers as “filter” for them to navigate through overwhelmingly huge amount of news happening in the world today.
News aggregate sites are tracking the reading habits of their users as a whole and then use the data to advise readers based on what others like them are reading.
So, now it’s the “computer” making more and more news judgement rather than editors.

It’s not news that newspapers circulations nowadays, generally speaking, are down because of its rivals on the web, news aggregate sites, bloggers, etc.
One important reason is that readers rely less on newspapers as “filter” for them to navigate through overwhelmingly huge amount of news happening in the world today.
News aggregate sites are tracking the reading habits of their users as a whole and then use the data to advise readers based on what others like them are reading.
So, now it’s the “computer” making more and more news judgement rather than editors.

Amazon is launching new movie download service this week, following myspace’s first try on allowing viewers downloading hit TV drama 24 hours for $2 per episode.
By putting his TV comedy Colbert Report on web, TV comedian Stephen Colbert rides YouTube to Web stardom .
What about news industry? Are news business ready? Couple of weeks ago,the UK newspaper Guardian has decided to put news articles on their website as soon as they are done, even before their newspapers are printed. Perhaps it is for the first time in news industry, a renowned brand newspaper is prioritizing its web publication over its print paper.
Perhaps, Like Jeff Jarvis said in his blog, newspaper should reconsider on its role in the new media age, replacing the proud metaphor of “bakery” with “garden”, moving from “content provider” to “nurturer” or “filter”.