Kate Langenburg/A&E Groove
If you’re a struggling reporter in today’s economy, I feel for you. Being a journalist with a degree, I can vouch for how difficult it is to find a paying, full time journalism job. It’s almost impossible.
Many news industries have been forced to downsize their companies and make major changes to the way they do business – this is something that most Americans know. Some companies have merely shut down altogether. BBC, one of the leading sources of news in the world, is not above that standard. It was reported on Friday that the corporation has plans to make some major cutbacks in the television and radio areas of entertainment.
BBC will be cutting 6 stations, including the Music and Asian network, and will also be lowering its spending on American shows. (This comes as no surprise, as the BBC is based out of Britain.) Not only that, they will cut our their teenage radio stations and cut back on reporting sports events.
As a result of this, a few magazines will be cut, as the BBC also owns BBC Worldwide, which has more to do with print media. In an artcle from Reuters, it was reported that no one at the BBC could immediately be reached for comment.
It’s a sad thing to say, but we could very well see the death of the newspaper. The availability of news online has provided people all over the world a service that previous generations did not see. As for all my fellow journalists out there, keep on truckin.’
a sad comment on the state of the world economy…..things change so quickly today that destabilization results, which seems to be the norm…
I feel the same way about that as I do about reading books online..POOH! There is nothing like holding a newspaper or a book in your hand. We already spend too much darn time on the computer…I, for one, would never read a newspaper online.
What s about watching news online. It could give you the full objectivity by watching the world from different perspectives even if some Channels have to be downsized.
Here is an example:
http://www.opiar.com