Cuts in Newspaper Jobs

Q: What do you think will happen to the newspapers in the future? Where do you get your news? Why? Will you miss them if they are gone?

A: In the news article "Newspaper publisher McClatchy cuts 1,600 jobs" by Michael Liedtke of the Redding Searchlight, he describes and explains the amount of job cuts that have been seen by only one company, the McClatchy Co., and the effects that this one company is making. Overall McClatchy has made 4,150 job cuts since June of 2008, minimizing its work force by one third of what it was the previous year. For those who were fortunate enough to keep their jobs, they are still experiencing the money-saving plan by their reduction of their salary. Overall, this company has saved "at least $300 million annually" and it might be possible for that number to grow even more in the upcoming months and years. Each newspaper that the McClatchy Co. oversees has rid of over 100 jobs each as well as reduce the salary of the rest of the employees saving the company hundreds of millions of dollars.

For those whos jobs have been lost in the newspaper side of the company, others have profited on the Internet side. The amount of Internet coverage has increased from 9% in 2007 to 11% percent in 2008 and will continue to grow in 2009, although this increase has not made up for what was lost.

Unfortunately, the amount of job cuts and salary reductions will eventually minimize the newspaper industry to such a small amount it will not be able to regain the strength it has had for so many years. Eventually, it will all be changed to Internet information and be able to be recieved instantly. News is able to be reached faster and easier then it has even been. The possibility to recieve information days before it will be printed on paper is increasing in population. It may not be that strong now, but in the future it will be unimaginable. For myself, I recieve information in many other ways other then seeing in on paper after someone picking it up from the driveway every morning. Now radio stations annouce big news on your way to work or school so the American public is constantly recieving information about what is happening. Internet posts articles days before it comes out on print, making the ability to know more faster increasingly popular. Many more forms of information of accumulated over the years since the first newspapers in the late 1600's and early 1700's. America's youth has found many new forms of information and will eventually only use those as sources instead of newspapers. Newspapers will eventually dwindle and now exist at all or in a very miniscule amount. This many not happen soon, but eventually in the years to come this will come to exist.