Digitization of the Media
I love to have a newspaper in my hand, but I'll admit that most of the time; I get my news online. Newspapers that fail to keep up with the demand for digital content are dying right and left, and I don't want to see that happen. I think that small town newspapers are essential to ensuring that all of our media coverage isn't filtered through solely urban life.
I love reading about a local high school student receiving an award. When I see my small town on the local news, I am excited- unless of course the story involves a crime. But still, it instills a sense of increased interest and hometown pride when your town or area is mentioned on the news or in the papers. It says, hey, your area is important, and hey, people care about what's going on in small town America.
I think that there is still a place for the small town newspaper in our modern digital age. However, as opposed to solely relying on print advertising to make revenue and secure advertisers, local papers and print media sources need to offer the best of both worlds. They need to allow readers the gratification of going out in their driveway to pick up the morning paper, and the ease of logging on to Twitter to check out the latest traffic and news update.
Unless small town media sources make this change and allow readers to also be e-readers, I believe that small publishers and print news companies will continue to decline. This would be a shame, but that is the world we live in.
Do you enjoy reading the newspaper? What do you think about the digitization of media? Let me know in the comments below, and thanks again for reading!
All the best,
Nila
I love reading about a local high school student receiving an award. When I see my small town on the local news, I am excited- unless of course the story involves a crime. But still, it instills a sense of increased interest and hometown pride when your town or area is mentioned on the news or in the papers. It says, hey, your area is important, and hey, people care about what's going on in small town America.
I think that there is still a place for the small town newspaper in our modern digital age. However, as opposed to solely relying on print advertising to make revenue and secure advertisers, local papers and print media sources need to offer the best of both worlds. They need to allow readers the gratification of going out in their driveway to pick up the morning paper, and the ease of logging on to Twitter to check out the latest traffic and news update.
Unless small town media sources make this change and allow readers to also be e-readers, I believe that small publishers and print news companies will continue to decline. This would be a shame, but that is the world we live in.
Do you enjoy reading the newspaper? What do you think about the digitization of media? Let me know in the comments below, and thanks again for reading!
All the best,
Nila
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