The crisis of the newspaper

Jul 7th 2011 adapted from the print edition of the Economist
In America where they are in the deepest trouble , the person often blamed is Craig Newmark , the fonder of Craigslist Mr Newmark looks an unlikely assassin .did he kill newspaper " that would be a considerable exaggeration " he says .the reason fo the decline of newspaper the advent of television news , then cable television , internet appeared in the reliance on advertising . Relied on advertising for 87% and other country surveyed , the web overtook newspaper in 2010 popular source among the under - 30 s newspaper and news are in crisis everywhere the United States is the worst case of media news comes out of us exceedingly negative "there's an assumption that there's a single crisis affecting all news organization , and that's not the case David Levy says , there are different kinds of crisis in different experience ing expansion . The situation in Japan the world's three biggest -selling daily newspaper , more than 94% of newspaper are sold by subscription withe different population ages . But in Russia had different situation because the government controls 60 % of Russia 's newspaper used as propaganda tools, online news sites offer an opportunity to break with the past . In the other hand they don't sign of crisis in India , the fastest -growing newspaper market , the number of paid - for daily newspaper in the country increased by 44% .in2008 India overtook china to become the leader in paid for daily . The future of the newspaper long term .