Presented at Media Connected forum for journalists
Sponsored by ictQATAR
January 17, 2009
Doha, Qatar
Richard J. Roth
Northwestern University in Qatar

“Of course as long as man lives someone will have to fill
the herald’s place. Someone will have to do the
bellringer’s work. Someone will have to tell the story of
the day’s news and the year’s happenings. A reporter is
perennial under many names and will persist with
humanity. But whether the reporter’s story will be
printed in type upon a press, I don’t know. I seriously
doubt it. I think most of the machinery now employed
in printing the day’s, the week’s, or the month’s doings
will be junked by the end of this century and will be as
archaic as the bellringer’s bell, or the herald’s trumpet.
New methods of communication, I think, will
supercede the old.”
-- William Allen White, April 21,
1931

“Simply put, if cable and satellite
broadcasting, as well as the
Internet, had come along first,
newspapers as we know them
probably would never have
existed.”
-- Warren Buffett’s March 2007 message to shareholders

\"I really don't know whether
we'll be printing The Times
in five years -- and you know
what? I don’t care either.\"
-- The New York Times Chairman Arthur Sulzberger
at the World Economic Forum
in Davos, Switzerland, January 2007

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News at Seven
Watch video : http://www.newsatseven.com/archives.php?id=154

Print is Dead
There is no room for new print
newspapers or magazines

Circulation of Paid Newspapers
increased 2.6% worldwide in 2007,
but it declined in the U.S. and Europe
India sells 99 million papers daily

China sells 107 million

Japan's paid circulation is three times

that of the U.S., and, on average,
Japanese newspapers cost three times
what they do in the U.S.
U.S. newspaper circulation was 63 million

in 1984; 25 years later, it is 50 million

The question now is not “will it?”
but “when will the downward
U.S. trend in newspaper
circulation hit the rest of the
world?”

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