Welcome to my new media world

Erab Fuqaha

New media poses challenges to Traditional Media

Four Challenges

• Decline in Readership

• Decline in Revenues

• Inability to produce real-time updates

• Rise of UGC websites

Americans read newspapers regularly

2006 2008

52% 46%

News not only in Newspapers

The newspaper’s editor: “Publications are struggling with the

profound disruption brought on by the Internet and the rising costs of newsprint and transportation.”

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The Monitor’s Editor

Publications are struggling with the profound disruption brought on by the Internet

and the rising costs of newsprint and transportation.”

Readership

Advertising

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Everyone is Online

eMarketer says E-marketer says

Businesses online Businesses Online

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Analyst Jeffrey Lindsay at Bernstein Research Center

Online classified advertising is a classic disruptive

technology; fundamentally the internet is actually even better than print for reaching large audiences at very low cost.”

Newspaper

Distribution

Who disseminated the news of the plane crash in New York?

Disseminates News

Jim Hanrahan wrote: “I just watched a plane crash into the Hudson river in Manhattan”.

TwitPIc

Flickr

“There's a plane in the Hudson and I'm on the ferry going to pick up the people. Crazy“, said Jamis Krums

Real Time Running Commentaries

Who is controlling the content of the news today?

•Diversity

•Transparency

•AccuracyNewspapers

An Open Space

NEW MEDIA

Media’s Consumers are now Media’s Producers

• Set media agenda

• Disseminate news and information

• Make comments on news

What are they talking about?

Is Traditional Media

transparent?

Eason Jordan

Everything is changing!

TO BE OR NOT TO BE A NEWSPAPER?