Survey: Journalists will be expected to write for all media within five years
May 6, 2008
From Media Life Magazine:
Ignore some of those pessimistic circulation and layoff headlines. Newspaper editors around the world are optimistic about the future of newspapers, but most no longer see it as a print-only business. Some 85 percent of editors are somewhat or very optimistic about the future of their newspaper, according to a survey of 704 senior editors done for the World Editors Forum and Reuters, perhaps because 86 percent believe that integrated print and online newsrooms will become the norm. Furthermore, 83 percent believe that journalists will be expected to be capable of writing for all types of media within five years. Some 44 percent of the editors surveyed think online will be the most common platform for reading news in the future. That’s up from 41 percent last year. Only 31 percent think print will be, while 12 percent said mobile and 7 percent e-papers. The survey also found that editors increasingly believe that news will be free in the future, 56 percent of editors, up from 48 percent last year.
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