{"id":890,"date":"2008-04-19T17:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-19T23:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=890"},"modified":"2008-04-19T17:05:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-19T23:05:00","slug":"the-decline-of-newspapers-nothing-to-do-with-journalism-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2008\/04\/the-decline-of-newspapers-nothing-to-do-with-journalism-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The decline of newspapers – nothing to do with journalism 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

M<\/span>ore grist<\/a> to the mill<\/a> from one of my favourite reads, John Robinson<\/a>. Here is Robinson, (who edits the News-Record<\/a> in Greensboro<\/a>, North Carolina<\/a>) explaining why he missed a retired editor speaking about the good old days and proposing another old-fashioned remedy for the news industry\u2019s ills: <\/p>\n

Doubling the size of reporting staffs would certainly serve the community. The more journalists reporting the good, the bad and the ugly, the better.<\/p>\n

But those are the effects of problems facing newspapers not the cause. While good journalism has not changed markedly since the 1990s, technology has.<\/p>\n

So has the audience. So have people\u2019s habits.<\/p>\n

Not addressing those changes in discussions about journalism and newspapers is like talking about television as if there were still only three channels.<\/p>\n

Those changes: <\/p>\n