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Journalism has gone through many changes over the years. TV was once a very dominant medium, and still is to this day. The question is: Will it remain dominant in the future? It may not be #1 20 years from now, as the Internet seems to have the most information available. It allows you to find everything from the other media with just a click of the button. I believe the newspaper will be completely gone in the future because people will get lazy, and tired of paying for the paper when they can find it online in the comforts of there own home.

As people may see the Internet taking over as a good thing, it can be bad for journalism as well. Journalists may be forced to create websites that you have to subscribe to in order to read the content. They will do this in order to make money. An average person will not want to pay for this because it is something they have been able to receive free for a very long time, and the change might come to quickly.

Radio news will most likely be all via satellite radio in 20 years or so since it’s listener rate appears to be growing rapidly.

I believe Journalism itself will never die because people are always going to feel the need to be informed, and as journalists that is our job and nobody can do it better than we can. Even though the way people receive the news may change, journalism will never leave this world and journalists will continue to crack big stories and keep the community informed until the end of time.

Here is an article about the future of journalism: http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/060212pryor/.

By:

Zack Tiessen