Big Ideas for the Newspaper Print Industry

1. Associated Press: Changes the way Journalism is written
2. Economics: How will the newspaper survivie?
3. Controversy

• In 1848, the Associated Press was formed, which was the first wire service used by newspapers. The objective behind this was for newspapers to be able to share correspondents and news to save money. In order for the news to be appropriate for all newspapers, journalist had to write the news in an unbiased way, separating opinion from fact (objectivity). This connects with modern day journalism because over the past years, certain newspapers have shown a biased point of view on certain issues. My question is: Does this hurt the success and purpose of the AP, or have editors adapted to the situation???
• Within the past few years, newspapers have gone through tough economic times. Advertisers are choosing to "sell" their products to the public via venues on the Internet rather than print. This is contributed in part by low circulation. So the question is: how will the newspaper save its self??
• Controversy revolving around the free press is an on going issue, particularly with the issue of diversity. Not all of America is made up of heterosexual, protestant  Anglos. There is obviously other ethnic, religious, sexual orientation groups ergo other point of views. This means that the Major news outlets, including the newspaper, should reflect that in their papers. One obvious solution is the Alternative Press, where the low-stream ideas could be heard. But wait, I thought that mainstream news, particularly newspapers, was supposed to be unbiased? If they were we wouldn't have this problem in the first place...right! So Equal Opportunity is a very important issue that all news outlets should be mindful of, BUT good journalism should not be compromised over the issue of "oh, we need more minority people in the office". Television news is entitled to their biased and so forth, but newspapers should concentrate on unbiased news.