The Fall of Newspapers ?

Arham Haryadi November 9, 2007 1

images.jpgHow do you get your news? Newspaper? Television? Internet? Radio. These are the obvious choices, but you’d be pleased to know that the Internet is edging it’s way closer to sending printed papers into oblivion.

According to a study done by Nielsen, more than 37% of all households with internet access visited a newsite at least once weekly. This accounts for roughly 59 million people. That’s up about 4% from last year during the same time period.

And. How about these numbers?

The younger you are, the higher the likelihood that you get your news online. The percentage for those 18-24 is 77%, compared with 25-34 year olds who are at 65%.

Income is a factor as well. Among households that make less than $100,000 56% get their news online, compared to a staggering 85% for those who make more than $100,000 a year.

Let’s not forget education. Among those with postgraduate education, 89% are online news people, compared to the 61% of those with just a high school education.

Pretty interesting stuff… don’t you think?

As Indonesian people that’s in growing period, this fact is just fact without significant effect. Then , I imagine, how about Indonesia for next three or five years ? how about system to get news, or about KOMPAS, REPUBLIKA, these are the popular newspaper on

According the studies, What do you think about ?

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