A look at how the journalism industry is thought to be "dying", what the enrollment rates of journalism majors look like within universities, and what students at the University of Denver think about the journalism turmoils.

1. Due to the recent decline of traditional media,
critics and journalism professionals have
described the journalism industry as “dying”.

2. The Pew Research Center notes that in
2015, weekday circulation of
newspapers fell 7 percent, while
Sunday circulation alone fell 4 percent.

3. The impact of declined readership was
prevalent when newsroom employment
decreased by 10 percent in 2015.

4. The turmoil of print media became a reality when the Rocky
Mountain Newspaper printed its final edition in 2009.

5. The rise of online media has
allowed consumers to be one click
away from accessing any and all
information with the touch of a
finger, discouraging those from
getting their news for a price.

6. Pew Research notes that nearly
4 in 10 U.S. adults (38 percent)
get news from digital sources,
including news websites or apps
(28 percent) and social
networking sites (18 percent).

7. A shattered paper
stand symbolizes
a shattering
paper industry

8. Justin Cygan, a DU journalism student,
is optimistic. “I still think you could
still have a good career as a journalist,
and I could have a good career.”

9. Enrollments in journalism schools nationwide fell two
years in a row – 2011 and 2012 – for the first time in
two decades, per American Journalism Review.

10. More than 300 students study
journalism at the University of Denver.
Among such students, 96 percent have a
full-time job or enroll in graduate school
within one year of graduation.

11. Researchers at the University of Georgia
noted that journalism education is falling
behind other fields within universities, where
overall enrollment trends are up.

12. A study at Indiana University
showed a 20 percent decline in
undergraduate journalism
enrollment from 2008 to 2012.

13. Master’s and undergraduate enrollments among
485 U.S. journalism and mass communication
programs declined by 2.9 percent in 2012, per
American Journalism Review.

14. According to the American
Journalism Review, 80
percent of university
administrators had made
changes in their curricula
since the previous year—
such as adding multimedia
and social media courses,
merging various curricula
and creating public
relations specializations

15. Journalism education has changed
from instruction for a career in a
single occupation — journalism —
to the preparation for careers in a
variety of communication
occupations, per American
Journalism Review.

16. “I think newspapers will eventually die, but I
wouldn’t be worried as a journalist,” says
Nicole Vanderburg, a student at DU. “There
are other ways to write, like blogs and online
newspapers.”

17. “Journalism isn’t dying,” says Cygan. “It’s changing.”