Poll Editors: news will be free
The company Zogby International conducted by order of Reuters and the World Editors Forum survey among leaders of printed periodicals around the world, which showed: more than half the editors believe that the news is doomed to become free of charge to readers in the near future. In addition, the editors believe that newspapers, for example, will no longer rely on prompt delivery of information, and to journalism and commentary.
Approximately 86% of respondents consider it necessary to further integration nyusruma newspaper and online services, two thirds are confident that in the coming decade, digital channels dissemination of information acquire a dominant position - the majority of readers will use mobile devices for reading the news.
A total of 56% of respondents believe that news - print or online - will in the near future, free of charge; last year just 48% of respondents shared this opinion. As noted by Reuters, linked to the growth of emerging markets: 61% of editors of publications emerging in South America, Eastern Europe, Russia, the Middle East and Asia generally assume it is a version of events. In Western Europe, this view is shared by 48% editors in the U.S. - 50%.
Online increasingly close print, but this is not the only problem. Most of the publications surveyed managers believed one of the main difficulties - falling number of young people, read newspapers. In addition, because of the emphasis on speed suffers quality of texts: no more than 45% of editors believed that journalism in the near future will be better. 25% believe that ahead of degradation.
As for countering problems, the 30% of respondents saw the decision to expand the state journalists, 35% - in adapting the work already available to them to new technologies.