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MMC 1000 students:

For your tumblr blog entry for this week, I’d like you to respond to this topic: the book mentions how newspaper executives are concerned about the low readership about young people (20s-30s).

How could you get more people in that age demographic to start reading the…

 The executives have a right to be concerned. With this day of age with technology there is no need to subscribe to newspapers.

With smart phones and tablets being carried around everything and anything is just a “Swype” away.

If newspapers want to be successful to this demographic they will need to get caught up with the times. The major newspapers are already doing it but I feel it is too late. Having an “app” is the way to do this. Unfortunately the small newspaper companies probably cannot afford to do this.

 There are so many outlets now to hear/read about a news story unlike in the past when the newspaper was the form of hearing about a story.

Justin Johnson