How do you get your news?

OK, Big Kahuna's impending life change gets me wondering about how many of you read newspapers. Anybody? Or do you rely on the interwebby for news? Both, perhaps?

Why one or the other?

Obviously my job means I devour as many newspapers as possible and always will, as long as they're around. Am I a dying breed?

 

DC has a couple of free dailies, and I occasionally pick those up to read on the train. Mostly though, I scan CNN.com several times a day, and usually once a week or so, I go to Washingtonpost.com for local stories. The free dailies are OK for snippets, but they never provide the complete picture, as a regular newspaper (Times, Post, etc) would.

 

Online. I rarely read the real paper anymore. I can skim the headlines and news I like much quicker without wasting paper.

 

What are these "news papers" you speak of?

 

I get my national/world news from the interweb and radio. I get my local news from our local rag. Being a small town it's nice to read about local people and events and school sports.

 

Paper's not wasted. It gets recycled.

It's the "skim" part that's disturbing. Us newsie folks try to provide a whole story but time, attention spans, etc., push people to not actually digest the news. Snippets tell you nothing.

As a guy with newsprint in his blood, it really is sad to see this trend. Not because I might soon be out of a job but it seems we're all too busy to want to really know what's going on.

 

Isnt "life change" a bit strong of a phrase? Isnt he just taking ownership and not changing how its run?

 

For the record I only watch FOX news and CNN. Great sources.

 

I'll be knocking on your door for a job when folks like you put me on the unemployment line.

Too bad. You really should read Jerry Ratcliffe. He's pretty good.

 

Maybe a good point. I don't know what he's doing, but I do know owning a weekly means being heavily involved in how it's run. Such shops are usually extremely small.

And speaking from experience, any sort of tie-in to jourrnalism is certainly a life change.

 

BBC/NPR plays in my office all day- and that's the bulk of my news consumption on a daily basis, balanced out with hitting online media news outlets.

Newspaper subscription rates have been failing for years- yet the industry has maintained a degree of solvency in spite of this. I don't get a daily newspaper, but I do make a point of picking up the Sunday edition of the Washington Post. As instantaneous as online media is, I feel absorb and retain information (and form opinions) better with traditional print media. There is an undeniable nostalgia associated with blackening your fingers with newsprint over your morning cuppa.

 

I was joking, I read papers...:cross:

 

Yeah right, you just don't want me knocking on your door.

Thank you, BTW.

 

Alltop - Top Beer News for me

 

I get my news via AP wire, CBS Newspath, Drudgereport, FNC, Bloomberg, CBC, CNN, MSNBC, Reuters, AFP, Times online, lcl TV news, and various other news media outlets. I haven't read a real newspaper in a few years. Electronic media is just too instant, print cannot compete with that, never could. Print must present news that others do not: lcl news for example, indepth articles that broadcast media simply hasn't the time for, or specialty or niche news like entertainment. No matter how slick a publication is, if there's nobody buying it & no ads being sold, it won't last long. Regards, GF.

 

There is also another effect, the exposure to subjects you would not seek on your own.

In an on-demand world, many, many worthwhile stories do not get eyeball traffic, amusing or critical as they may be...

A little bit like the shorts before the movie.

 

I like the combination of newspapers and the web. I get 2 newspapers a day. It's the classified drop that is killing the newspapers with Craiglist being the preferred method for buying and selling. At least in my area.

 

The only thing I read in print is the Wall Street Journal and local business journal everything else is online.

 

Agreed on all counts. However, it's the same people who complain about not having enough local news who are the ones who don't buy the paper that provides it. For instance, folks in my town get peeved that the Hartford Courant has no news on Watertown.

Surprise, surprise. We're 40 miles from Hartford. My paper is in the next town over. Which paper do you think might provide local news? People claim to want to know more, but don't have the attention spans to take 10 minutes to read a 600-word story.

 

I'm worried about you Shecky. You devour newspapers to the point you have newsprint in your blood? You've got to change your diet or you'll be the guess star in a "House" episode. I heard alcohol can help purge that ink out. Break out the Everclear.

 

Very true. For the first time in my 10 years at my current shop, my travel has been cut back. Why? The drop in classified adverts. Why the drop? Fewer people buy the paper. It's more economical to advertise online. Fewer eyes on the classifieds, fewer classifieds.

But if people get the paper for the classifieds, that's sad. There's actual news in there, ya know.

 

news papers suck.


i get everything from digg and TMZ

 

Long story short...the paper we're buying can be traced back through different owners to the Newspaper that my Great grand parents ran between 1914, and some time in the 50's. I worked there for 2 years when I was in high school, and did 100% of the Dark Room and Photography. Anyone Remember a Dark Room? Film....Anyone?......No?

True that news gets in your blood, and true that Daily news papers are making less than they were say 20 years ago, but small town weekly papers across the country continue to have a steady business, because as long as there is a grandma with a grand child playing basket ball, She's gonna want to buy a paper with Jr's Picture in it.

 

I think you'll be just fine, and good going back to your roots. I remember a dark room. And my first job was a cut-and-paste shop. I did that, too. Sounds like you're in for some fun with this one.

 

Most of my news comes from the internet, reddit and such.

I used to read the local paper daily when it was available for free at school, but lately I don't really feel compelled to.

 

Can't you get arrested for that?

Had to learn darkroom work in Graphic Arts in High School. We had our little Kodak Brownie cameras and those box cameras were you had to pull the slide to make the exposure.

 

I get my news from John Stewart, oh and of course I just count on the important stuff showing up here.