Film 260

1. Receiving News Faster than Ever
Photo by nmjeeptours (via Flickr)

2. Being updated on current
events and transferring
information is almost essential
for society to function
Photo by Orbiting Sol (via Flickr)

3. The Halifax Gazette was Canada’s first
newspaper which was created March
23rd 1752. This was the beginning of
the newspaper industry in Canada
Source: Stephen Kimber
(Professor of Journalism
at the University of
King's College) Photo by Bhaskar Dutta (via Flickr)

4. Since 2000, print newspaper
readers have dropped from 47%
of all Americans to only 23%
Photo by kaleia (via Flickr)
Source: Jack
Mirkinson (The
Huffington Post)

5. “The print industry is obsolete to the
point where even calling it the
"print" industry will soon seem quaint
and obsolete itself.”
-Investopedia
Source: Investopedia Photo by dolfi (via Flickr)

6. 39% of
Americans
now read
online
newspapers
Photo by Nathan Quinn (www.theglobeandmail.com)

7. TV still remains the most
popular source for news.
However it is likely that will
change soon…
Picture by
Kenjimori (via
Flickr)

8. All major
Canadian
news
stations
now stream
online news
stories
Picture by Sergioc
(via Flickr)

9. Photo by Ashley Lowry (via Flickr)

10. Social media is
the fastest
growing source
for news
although still
relatively small for the
time being.
Photo by Jason A. Howie (via Flickr)

11. Social media
provides quick,
convenient
and to the
point
information
through
connecting
with other users
Photo by Nathan Quinn

12. On Facebook, 70% of news is
received from family and
friends. On Twitter, only 39% of
news is received from family
and friends.
Picture by LetThemTalk (via Flickr)
Source: Amy
Mitchell & Tom
Rosenstiel of PEJ,
and Leah Christian of
the Pew Research
Center

13. This means that news
distribution companies
will be able to take
advantage of Twitter
much more effectively
to get their word out.
Photo by Scott Beale (via Flickr)

14. Despite its convenience,
Facebook and Twitter only
account for 9% of online
news consumption.
Photo by MayJ (via Flickr)
Source: Amy Mitchell & Tom
Rosenstiel of PEJ, and Leah
Christian of the Pew Research
Center

15. Picture by Ecoagricultural Partners (via Flickr)
Source: Amy Mitchell
& Tom Rosenstiel of
PEJ, and Leah
Christian of the Pew
Research Center

16. In 2012
YouTube hit
milestones
and proved
to be one of
the largest
contributors
in online news
Photo by ijustine (via Flickr)

17. People from more than 200
countries tuned into ABC’s
coverage of the 2012
presidential debate via YouTube
Photo by Barack Obama (via Flickr)
Source Ken Yeung, Author at the Next Web

18. The Weather Channel provideo
70 hours of livestreaming of
Hurricane Sandy through
YouTube
There was 39,000 videos
covering the disaster
uploaded in only one week.
Many of those videos were
user submitted.
Source Ken Yeung, Author at the Next Web Picture by PM Breakfast (via Flickr)

19. 350,000+ videos
were uploaded
covering the
Syrian Protest
reached a total
of 200 million
views
Source Ken Yeung, Author at the Next Web
Picture by
Christian R-L (via
Flickr)

20. With the advancements in technology we have
made and continue to make, it is up to us to use
those advancements to continue to communicate
the news effectively amongst one another
Picture by vulture labs (via Flickr)

21. Sources
• http://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0112/technology-and-the-
death-of-print-media.aspx
• http://thenextweb.com/google/2012/12/19/google-shares-news-from-
youtube-in-2012/
• http://stateofthemedia.org/2012/mobile-devices-and-news-consumption-
some-good-signs-for-journalism/what-facebook-and-twitter-mean-for-news/
• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/27/pew-study-online-news-
newspapers-tv_n_1920640.html
• http://stephenkimber.com/journalism/canadas-first-newspaper
• All pictures used are licensed under creative commons and sourced
from Flickr
Picture by bowenmurphy (via Flickr)