Print editors saw the material, but few ran the findings: only about one fourth of Americans now read print newspapers, notes Grumpy Editor.
Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, in its 2012 news consumption survey, finds “just 23 percent” read a print newspaper as “many readers are now shifting to digital platforms to read the papers.”
That compares with 38 percent in 2006 and 41 percent a decade ago.
Obviously, print editors are reluctant to run screaming headlines about dwindling print readership.
“Figures for newspaper readership may not include some people who read newspaper content on sites that aggregate news content, such as Google News or Yahoo News," Pew points out.
“Substantial percentages of the regular readers of leading newspapers now read them digitally,” mentions Pew.
“Currently, 55 percent of regular New York Times readers say they read the paper mostly on a computer or mobile device, as do 48 percent of regular USA Today and 44 percent of Wall Street Journal readers, adds Pew.
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Newsweek departs print version with Dec. 31 issue
Print versions are fading on the magazine front, too.
Newsweek, after undergoing internal and external contractions over the past five years, today announced it will abandon its print edition.
The Dec. 31 issue will be its last print version.
The weekly news magazine’s first issue hit newsstands on Feb. 17, 1933.
Plans call for it to go to an all-digital format “in early 2013” as Newsweek Global.
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