Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Print is taking a bashing: is it on the way out?

Print media is set to be one of the major casualties of the recession.

Anyone who watches the media will know that print has been losing ground to the Internet for a long time, but the recession is hastening the process. The Bellweather Report shows a record reduction in media spend and print is being his heavily.

It is clear that this is having a real and lasting impact on the industry. Exchange and Mart has announced it is becoming an online only entity, ceasing it's print publication in February.


Stats from the US paint a sorry picture....



... matched by recent numbers showing that the Internet is now the most popular meduim for access news. Is this the beginning of the end?

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