Media News...

After looking on Google, researching media stories, something caught my eye almost immediately.
"Job Losses in Newspaper Business"
I am quite interested in the prospect of going into Media as a career, the main area I am interested in is magazine publishing, or maybe something to do with a newspaper. I am currently doing Photography as well as Media, so maybe something incorporating the two is my ideal job.
So after seeing this headline I wondered if this career move would be wise.

"The U.S. Department of Labor estimates some 21,000 newspaper industry jobs disappeared this year. Somehow, newspaper owners continue to think that the way to handle economic downturns is to make their product worse be eliminating its most important asset, people. But with fewer reporters to dig up news as newspapers transition to the Web their content is going to look more and more like everything else online, limited and poorly reported."

This is something I found on a website:
www.realclearpolitics.com
This also links with a class we had about a week ago with Mrs Francis, we read an article that read "Critical Condition." It talked about how more and more business people are turning to Blackberries to hold meetings, and generally becoming more technology based as companies. In the article it also stated that more people are deciding to find out information of all sorts online, therefore less newspapers and magazines are being bought, so less people are needed to write for the newspapers and magazines. Furthermore, supporting the fact of society becoming more technology based, as they are using the internet for finding out things that could easily be found in a newspaper or magazine. Because of this, less and less jobs are needed, hence the 21,000 job losses.
As an area of interest from my part, I think it is a shame that jobs are being lost in such an interesting part of media and life.