Richardpruen: 1 revision imported: templates

2023-08-08T08:59:54Z

1 revision imported: templates

← Older revision		Revision as of 09:59, 8 August 2023
(No difference)

Wikipedia>Citation bot: Alter: template type. Add: newspaper. Removed parameters. Some additions/deletions were parameter name changes. | Use this bot. Report bugs. | Suggested by Spinixster | Category:History of newspapers | #UCB_Category 27/31

2023-06-26T12:39:04Z

Alter: template type. Add: newspaper. Removed parameters. Some additions/deletions were parameter name changes. | Use this bot. Report bugs. | Suggested by Spinixster | Category:History of newspapers | #UCB_Category 27/31

New page

{{short description|Ageing of people who read newspapers}}
{{essay|date=December 2011}}
{{About|the increasing age of newspaper readers||Decline of newspapers}}
Newspaper readership is the people who read or are thought to read a particular newspaper,<ref name="dictionary.com" /> or newspapers in general. '''Ageing of newspaper readership''' means that the average age (however defined) of readers is increasing. This may or may not be accompanied by a decline in total readership numbers. However currently, in many regions, readership is both ageing and declining.

This may be because younger people are increasingly using other sources of news (e.g. online newspaper articles or other news websites, or free newspapers) or in some cases are not accessing news at all.

== Statistics ==

Canadian newspaper readership has decreased every year since 2007 and the revenue of Canada newspapers is slow.{{clarify|date=November 2019}}<ref name="INMA" /> Canada's newspaper readership is also ageing, perhaps partly because the population of Canada as a whole is ageing. Though Canadians become more interested in reading newspapers as they age, this has less of an impact.<ref name="Fitzgerald" />

The growth of newspaper market has stopped in 2007 and decline since 2008.{{Fix|text=where?}}<ref name="Guardian" /> Newspaper circulation had declined 34% in 2009 compared to 2004.{{Fix|text=where?}}<ref name="Guardian" />

The U.S. population is ageing, but media consumers' speed of ageing is faster than the overall population (Economist) and this also applies to newspaper readership. Middle-age consumers are considered as the potential consumers{{clarify|date=November 2019}}{{Fix|text=vague}} rather than younger people.<ref name="Economist" /> Printed newspapers are being abandoned by the young more than by any other age group.

== Factors ==

=== Long-term cohort effect ===

In demography, a cohort is a group of people with the same year (or group of adjacent years) of birth. Sometimes different cohorts have different characteristics; this is called a cohort effect.<ref name="cohort" />

There may be a cohort effect for newspaper readership:<ref name="coreplace" /> younger cohorts appear to read fewer newspapers than older cohort groups,<ref name="Lee" /> even though newspapers generally target a wide range of age groups. As time passes, older cohorts will die out and be replaced by younger cohorts, resulting in a decline in newspaper readership.

=== Online news ===

The internet is becoming one of the main resources for receiving information.<ref name="Link-Up" /> Online news readership is increasing as newspaper readership decreases, assisted by gadgets such as computers, cell phones and tablets. The [[Columbia Journalism Review|Columbian Journalism Review]] found that "succeeding generations growing up with the Web lose the habit of reading print".<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Race|url=https://www.cjr.org/cover_story/the_race.php|last=Kuttner|first=Robert|date=April 2007|website=Columbia Journalism Review|language=en|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-05-19}}</ref> The marginal cost of accessing news on line is much less than buying newspapers.<ref name="McIntosh" /> Thus households with internet access are more likely to end newspaper subscriptions;<ref name="MSNBC" /> all the more in urban areas than the rural areas as (in some parts of the world) these have a more stable and high-speed broadband service.<ref name="MSNBC" />

== Impact ==

Newspapers are a key source of new political, economic and social information for public consumption.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Thurman|first=Neil|date=2018-07-27|title=Newspaper Consumption in the Mobile Age: Re-assessing multi-platform performance and market share using "time-spent"|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1461670X.2017.1279028|journal=Journalism Studies|language=en|volume=19|issue=10|pages=24|doi=10.1080/1461670X.2017.1279028|s2cid=152030948 |issn=1461-670X|via=Research gate}}</ref> If people do not keep up with the news, they are likely to be less aware of or concerned by local, national and international events. Thus political participation is likely to decline, as are civic awareness and democratic values.<ref name="Lee" /> Newspapers tend to cover the news in more detail than on-line and other sources; thus readers are more able to consider political issues than e.g. those who gain political information from TV.<ref name="Lee" />

People with lower socio-economic status (SES) receive information slower than people with higher socio-economic status,<ref name="Lee" /> as on average they are less educated and may have less time to spend on reading information (they spend more time on working to maintain living quality), and can spend less on access to information. However there are many exceptions. Young consumers of the newspaper are people with lower socio-economic status{{dubious|date=November 2019}}, they read less, spend less time on reading newspaper and require smaller amount of information compared to the older consumers.<ref name="Lee" /> As the people with lower SES reduce time to read newspapers, their social/political knowledge will decrease as the same time which widened the knowledge gap between people with higher SES and lower SES.<ref name="Lee" /> People with lower SES tend to gain information from TV, but this tends to present information in a biased and/or dumbed-down way.<ref name="Lee" /> However so do many newspapers.

== See also ==

* [[Newspaper]]
* [[Online newspaper]]
* [[Newspaper circulation]]

== Notes ==

{{refs|30em|refs=
<ref name="dictionary.com">{{Cite web|url=https://www.dictionary.com/browse/readership|title=Definition of readership | Dictionary.com|website=www.dictionary.com}}</ref>
<ref name="INMA">{{Cite web|url=https://www.inma.org/blogs/value-content/post.cfm/newspaper-readership-remains-strong-in-canada|title=Newspaper readership remains strong in Canada|website=International News Media Association (INMA)}}</ref>
<ref name="Fitzgerald">Fitzgerald, M. "Canada Newspaper Readership Up." Editor & Publisher 125. 18 (May 2, 1992): 40.</ref>
<ref name="Guardian">{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/jun/17/newspaper-circulation-oecd-report|title=UK and US see heaviest newspaper circulation declines|first=James|last=Robinson|newspaper=The Guardian |date=June 17, 2010|via=www.theguardian.com}}</ref>
<ref name="Economist">{{Cite news|url=https://www.economist.com/briefing/2011/04/07/peggy-sue-got-old|title=Peggy Sue got old|date=April 7, 2011|newspaper=The Economist}}</ref>
<ref name="cohort">{{ cite journal | pmid = 20122771 | doi = 10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.12.018 | volume = 70 | title = What is a cohort effect? Comparison of three statistical methods for modeling cohort effects in obesity prevalence in the United States, 1971-2006 | pmc = 3469580 | year= 2010 | journal = Soc Sci Med | pages = 1100–8 | last1 = Keyes | first1 = KM | last2 = Utz | first2 = RL | last3 = Robinson | first3 = W | last4 = Li | first4 = G | issue = 7 }}</ref>
<ref name="coreplace">Wolfram, P. "Cohort replacement and the downward trend in newspaper readership" Newspaper Research 21.2 (2000): 11-22</ref>
<ref name="Lee">Lee, T.-T. & Wei, L. "How Newspaper Readership Affects Political Participation" Newspaper Research Journal 29.3 (2008): 8-23</ref>
<ref name="Link-Up">Conhaim, W.W. "Newspaper readership threatened by Web." Link-up 18.5 (Sep/Oct 2001): 4.</ref>
<ref name="McIntosh">{{ cite web | author = Duncan McIntosh Company, Inc. | date = 5 November 2011 | url = http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/03/14/6267015-online-news-readership-overtakes-newspapers |title=Online News Readership Overtakes Newspapers | accessdate=2011-11-29 | url-status=dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20111118151723/http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/03/14/6267015-online-news-readership-overtakes-newspapers |archivedate = 2011-11-18 }}</ref>
<ref name="MSNBC">{{Cite web|url=https://www.editorandpublisher.com/news/newspaper-stocks-fall-after-analyst-s-warning-on-profits/|title=Newspaper Stocks Fall After Analyst's Warning on Profits – Editor & Publisher Magazine}}</ref>
}}

== References ==

{{refbegin}}
* Fitzgerald, M. "Canada Newspaper Readership Up." Editor & Publisher 125. 18 (May 2, 1992): 40.
* Peiser, W. "Cohort replacement and the downward trend in newspaper readership." Newspaper Research Journal 21.2 (2000): 11.
* Lee, T.-T. & Wei, L. "How Newspaper Readership Affects Political Participation" Newspaper Research Journal Newspaper Research Journal 29.3 (2008): 8-23
{{refend}}

== External links ==

* [http://listverse.com/2011/07/03/top-10-reasons-the-newspaper-is-dying/ Top 10 Reasons the Newspaper is dying]

[[Category:Newspaper publishing]]
[[Category:Newspapers]]
[[Category:News]]
[[Category:History of newspapers]]
[[Category:Ageing]]

Ageing of newspaper readership - Revision history

Richardpruen: 1 revision imported: templates

Wikipedia>Citation bot: Alter: template type. Add: newspaper. Removed parameters. Some additions/deletions were parameter name changes. | Use this bot. Report bugs. | Suggested by Spinixster | Category:History of newspapers | #UCB_Category 27/31