Dienstag, März 23, 2010

New York Times: The End of Newspapers? Das Ende der Zeitungen?

By MARIE BÉNILDE
Published: March 16, 2010
 

Journalists are now in the same situation as steel workers in the 1970s: They are destined to disappear, but they don’t know it.

That was the assessment of a banker from BNP-Paribas at the French national press federation’s conference in Strasbourg in 2006. His words caused a sensation, but the statistics support him: Having lost more than 2,300 jobs last year, the French press is going through a crisis similar to America’s. more...