Richard Roth, NorthWestern University in Qatar - Media Connected

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January 17, 2009

Doha, Qatar

Richard J. Roth

Northwestern University in Qatar



“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



“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



"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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Print is Dead Print is Dead

There is no room for new printnewspapers or magazines

There is no room for new printnewspapers or magazines



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



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

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

world?”

Richard Roth, NorthWestern University in Qatar - Media Connected

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