It seems as though printed journalism is a dying art. Newspapers are hard to find on the University of Maryland campus during the summer. Students must go onto the Internet to read the daily news.
Rem Rieder, editor and senior vice president of AJR, talked to class recently about the state of the industry and said printed newspapers "are in danger" because of dwindling readership and advertising.
Most newspapers are being published online, which allows articles to be corrected and updated faster. And that's where readers have drifted.
Newcomers like Twitter raise more questions about delivery. Tweeting information may not seem very conventional, but The Washington Post and other news organizations use it as a way to quickly get out the latest stories. Twitter allows for instant updates of stories, in bursts of 140 characters or less.
So the real question is, how long until print is no longer used?
And will everything on the Internet be explained in fewer than 140 characters?
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