The current issue of Columbia Journalism Review has a long, thought-provoking essay by Evan Cornog called Let's Blame the Readers. His focus is on newspapers and their ever-shrinking readership, especially among young people.
But it's not because hip young folks are swarming to online journalism. Cornog notes that only 11% of young Americans consider the Internet a major source of their news. The reasons are more subtle, and more depressing, than most journalists want to think about. Very much worth reading.
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