{"id":2457,"date":"2019-03-28T10:46:35","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T09:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/?post_type=article&p=2457"},"modified":"2019-03-28T10:46:35","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T09:46:35","slug":"zmien-il-gurnali-spicca-jew-qed-jaddattaw-fl-era-digitali","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/article\/zmien-il-gurnali-spicca-jew-qed-jaddattaw-fl-era-digitali\/","title":{"rendered":"Are newspapers calling it a day or are they adapting to the digital age?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Are\u00a0<\/span>newspapers<\/span>\u00a0dying out? This debate has been ongoing for a long while and it has now resurfaced in the news. Many\u00a0think\u00a0that the end of the dailies is within sight – they will not be around much longer. The future of journalism is within the digital world of websites and apps not in the printed media.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

On the other\u00a0hand\u00a0there are those who insist that journals and newspapers have been with us for decades and, although<\/span>\u00a0one can find<\/span>\u00a0the majority of the news\u00a0<\/span>on the internet, the dailies<\/span>\u00a0still have a niche to fill.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So\u00a0who is right?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Those who insist that the\u00a0<\/span>time of the dailies is gone claim that newspaper circulation has decreased drastically, profits have dried up and the industry has experienced a wave of redundancies in the last few years. Having said this, sceptics of the printed media claim that the internet is simply a better source of news. They say that on the internet, the journals are live\u00a0<\/span>and<\/span>\u00a0can supplement their circulation with audio, clips and their invaluable vast archives.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Some commentators\u00a0<\/span>insist<\/span>\u00a0that newspapers have not yet died.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0It is true that the printed media is facing hard times, and it is true that the internet can offer\u00a0a number of\u00a0things that the printed journal cannot offer.<\/span>\u00a0 Journalism experts have been predicting the end of newspapers for many years. Radio, television and, now, the internet were expected to kill the printed\u00a0media\u00a0but the journals live on. Those who say that the future of news is online and only on the internet are forgetting a critical point \u2013 that the income from advertising on the internet is not\u00a0sufficient\u00a0to support news agencies.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

One<\/span>\u00a0possibility that has not yet made it to Malta is the\u00a0<\/span>paywall<\/span>\u00a0where the reader is asked to pay a membership fee to access a news service.\u00a0A number of\u00a0foreign journals and websites are implementing this system to generate income. Research shows that the success of\u00a0<\/span>paywalls<\/span>\u00a0together with subscriptions to a print journal has led to stability and, in some cases, an actual increase in income from the journal circulation.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In the age of Netflix, many people are accepting to pay for video content.<\/span>\u00a0Using the same argument, therefore, it may be time for the public to start to pay for news content that is uploaded online. Why do we pay to have a printed journal in hand and not do the same for an electronic journal?\u00a0It should be pointed out that behind\u00a0every carefully compiled article that has been put online are hours of work and this should be duly appreciated.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

All in all, until someone comes up with a way to make an electronic journal profitable<\/span>, the printed journal will endure. Journals and newspapers remain the most trusted information sources in light of the fake news that is posted\u00a0online\u00a0and people will continue to turn to them for the real story when the social media misrepresents some event.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Are\u00a0newspapers\u00a0dying out? This debate has been ongoing for a long while and it has now resurfaced in the news. Many\u00a0think\u00a0that the end of the dailies is within sight – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2460,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":""},"issuem_issue":[103],"issuem_issue_categories":[7],"issuem_issue_tags":[],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"2.8.8","language":"en","enabled_languages":["mt","en"],"languages":{"mt":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/2457"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2457"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/2457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2463,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/2457\/revisions\/2463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue?post=2457"},{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue_categories?post=2457"},{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue_tags?post=2457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}