Changes

==Newspapers in the Internet Age: 1970-2009==

==Newspapers in the Internet Age: 1970-2009==

===Rapid decline in circulation===

===Rapid decline in circulation===

The circulation of the nation’s daily newspapers plunged during 2006, in one of the sharpest declines in recent history. The slide continues a decades-long trend and adds to the woes of a mature industry already struggling with layoffs and facing the potential sale of some of its flagships.  In addition newsstand sales of magazines fell more than 4 percent, to about 48.7 million copies. Among domestic newsweeklies, Time magazine reported the biggest drop.  Analysts pointed to the increased use of the Internet, noting that more people in 2006 read the ''New York Times'' online than on paper.  Newspaper readership goes up with education, and education levels are rising. That favorable trend is offset by the choice of people in each age group to read fewer papers.

The circulation of the nation's daily newspapers plunged during 2006, in one of the sharpest declines in recent history. The slide continues a decades-long trend and adds to the woes of a mature industry already struggling with layoffs and facing the potential sale of some of its flagships.  In addition newsstand sales of magazines fell more than 4 percent, to about 48.7 million copies. Among domestic newsweeklies, Time magazine reported the biggest drop.  Analysts pointed to the increased use of the Internet, noting that more people in 2006 read the ''New York Times'' online than on paper.  Newspaper readership goes up with education, and education levels are rising. That favorable trend is offset by the choice of people in each age group to read fewer papers.

<ref>Katharine Q. Seelye, "Newspaper Circulation Falls Sharply",  ''New York Times'' October 31, 2006. [https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/31/business/media/31paper.html?_r=1&ref=business&oref=slogin online] and Journalism.org ''The State of the News Media 2004'' (2005) online at [http://www.stateofthenewsmedia.org/narrative_newspapers_audience.asp?cat=3&media=2]</ref>

<ref>Katharine Q. Seelye, "Newspaper Circulation Falls Sharply",  ''New York Times'' October 31, 2006. [https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/31/business/media/31paper.html?_r=1&ref=business&oref=slogin online] and Journalism.org ''The State of the News Media 2004'' (2005) online at [http://www.stateofthenewsmedia.org/narrative_newspapers_audience.asp?cat=3&media=2]</ref>