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Presented at Media Connected forum for journalists

Sponsored by ictQATAR

January 17, 2009

Doha, Qatar 

Richard J. Roth

Northwestern University in Qatar 

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“Of course as long as man lives someone will have to fillthe herald’s place. Someone will have to do thebellringer’s work. Someone will have to tell the story of the day’s news and the year’s happenings. A reporter isperennial under many names and will persist withhumanity. But whether the reporter’s story will beprinted in type upon a press, I don’t know. I seriously 

doubt it. I think most of the machinery now employedin printing the day’s, the week’s, or the month’s doings will be junked by the end of this century and will be asarchaic as the bellringer’s bell, or the herald’s trumpet.

New methods of communication, I think, willsupercede the old.”

-- William Allen White, April 21,1931

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“Simply put, if cable and satellite

broadcasting, as well as theInternet, had come along first,newspapers as we know them

probably would never haveexisted.”

-- Warren Buffett’s March 2007 message to shareholders

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"I really don't know whether

 we'll be printing The Times

in five years -- and you know

 what? I don’t care either."

-- The New York Times Chairman Arthur Sulzberger

at the World Economic Forumin Davos, Switzerland, January 2007

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iPhone

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iPod Touch

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6 - Qts. Green Ale

1 - 4 oz. Package of Peanuts

1 - Hot Dog

Serves One

IBM

The New York Times

• Dow pushes 20,000

• Peace in Middle East

•

Taxes cutTraffic

WeatherCloudy

High 83F

The Times

on your cereal box

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 News at Seven

 Watch video : http://www.newsatseven.com/archives.php?id=154

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Print is Dead Print is Dead 

There is no room for new printnewspapers or magazines

There is no room for new printnewspapers or magazines

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Circulation of Paid Newspapers

increased 2.6% worldwide in 2007,but it declined in the U.S. and Europe

Circulation of Paid Newspapers

increased 2.6% worldwide in 2007,but it declined in the U.S. and Europe

India sells 99 million papers daily 

China sells 107 million

 Japan's paid circulation is three timesthat of the U.S., and, on average,

 Japanese newspapers cost three times what they do in the U.S.

U.S. newspaper circulation was 63 millionin 1984; 25 years later, it is 50 million

India sells 99 million papers daily 

China sells 107 million

 Japan's paid circulation is three timesthat of the U.S., and, on average,

 Japanese newspapers cost three times what they do in the U.S.

U.S. newspaper circulation was 63 millionin 1984; 25 years later, it is 50 million

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The question now is not “will it?”but “when will the downward

U.S. trend in newspapercirculation hit the rest of the

 world?”

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