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Following on from getting a weeks work experience at FourFourTwo, only managed to get two weeks straight after at All Out Cricket magazine.
 
Still finding it strange that my course mates and you yourself Jack are keen to get into print... ABC numbers are plummeting, and the fact that the Telegraph is going behind a pay wall says they're struggling now... The industry of a whole is dying a very painful death.
 
It's clear the industry is dying, no doubt about that, but I'm just keen on writing more than anything else. Obviously there is a big market for online writers and that's eventually where a lot of writers will end up. But for me the best experience you can get at the moment is in print, so that's where I'm heading for now.
 
Pretty much all the prestige brands still have a print publication, news sources which started online still struggle for an identity/brand recognition somewhat. Experience in one of those looks good, even if there isn't a solid long-term future.
 
It's clear the industry is dying, no doubt about that, but I'm just keen on writing more than anything else. Obviously there is a big market for online writers and that's eventually where a lot of writers will end up. But for me the best experience you can get at the moment is in print, so that's where I'm heading for now.

It's not going to die outright. The print industry is in a similar situation to the music industry about 5 years ago. The traditional going-to-a-shop-and-buying-a-CD model came under serious threat from digital, so the industry had to come up with a way of dealing with it. And they succeeded. The print media will just have to do the same.
 
The difference is no newsagency pre-clips the ads out of magazines before someone reads it.
 
I wouldn't pay to be behind the pay wall when news is freely available from sources such as BBC News, CNN and the like, the same way that I rarely pay for entertainment these days. End of the day if I can get it for free, I will. I'm not proud of the fact I torrent, that's just the way it is.
 
It's not going to die outright. The print industry is in a similar situation to the music industry about 5 years ago. The traditional going-to-a-shop-and-buying-a-CD model came under serious threat from digital, so the industry had to come up with a way of dealing with it. And they succeeded. The print media will just have to do the same.

Exactly what I was getting at. The industry is very much moving towards the online market, and I imagine that it will become very advertised based because, like Ben said, with websites like BBC and CNN there is just no way people (or enough people) are going to pay for online subscriptions.

Papers like The Sun though will probably still be booming for years to come. There are enough people who don't mind shelling out 30p a day to get the rough news/gossip without having to turn on a computer or TV.

Magazines will probably be the same. You can get a lot of things online but exclusive interviews are something that comes with prestige that these magazines have.
 
My concern about the paywall model is that instead of something like cable TV where you'd pay a one off amount for a bunch of cross-subsidised content, per-site subscriptions might seem cheap from the outset, if you want a broader range of media then it falls down.

I think the future will be in a service where a wide range of publishers offer a flat fee for a wealth of content in one package. The music streaming services get close to this - but then music piracy was really the first major boom in the online era - so the industry have had longer to finally accept different pricing models.

Television and movies will have to come next, the only problem at the moment is there's too many companies that think they can be the winner, so there's too much exclusive content on different services for consumers to get what they want.

I don't see how online news gets into that position - I think they certainly need a bundling approach. While one or two sites may be good enough for some portion of their readers to pay, you couldn't sustain paying even a nominal amount for all the sites you visit, or even all the 'news' sites.

The same reason you don't get to choose the exact channels you want on pay TV is the same reason current paywalls on newspapers and magazines will fail - the only content unique enough to make someone want to pay for it is too much of a niche to be sustainable on a user pays model.

I get a newspaper delivered daily because I like the idea of sitting down and reading a paper - but I don't use my newspaper's website, other sites do it better.
 
Felt really confident after I heard APJ Abdul Kalam's speech yesterday at my college. He came to deliver a speech and I broke into media gang, what allowed me to go to the nearest point people were allowed., thanks to my friend, who managed me to get in the media box:D.
 
Just came back from my trip from Las Vegas .. Its one heck of a place booze,gambling and girls :D

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Thats Fremont street, the old Las Vegas I clicked

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Also this is from my last visit to Florida, to Epcot at Disney Land

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So no April Fools this time?

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It had become a habit of celebrating my birthday with PC.net but hating that this time they cancelled out. It just shows that even admins don't care about celebrating it. This site has degraded a lot in recent years. I miss 2008, even though I was new member then but I still enjoyed reading posts from quality users.

BTW, finished my last day at school today. I have never celebrated my birthday at school because there was always a holiday due to change of classes in that period. Quite ironic that it has happened on my last day of school. Gonna miss the school, no idea should I be looking forward or be afraid of going to Engineering college.
 

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