There is much that journalists can learn from bloggers and other forms of online journalism. Journalist can learn about audience feedback and being more interactive with the readers. Obviously this can only happen in online publications but it seems that that is the direction that newspapers and the media are going. I think that newspapers will never actually completely die because they still have their advantages, like being able to pick it up and walk around with it. (I hate reading from a computer screen too, it's miserable on the eyes.) But the fact is that most of the new generations out there are using their computers exclusively to get their news and new crazy features are becoming very popular. Like vlogging, and all that mess. The point is that news outlets need to keep up to speed with the rest of the online world. Sometimes when I don’t get a chance to read the paper I will go to the San Francisco Chronicle's online edition and I must say that it is terrible when compared to other online newspapers. It has hardly any graphics zero space for reader response, pretty much just the exact text that’s in the print edition. I don’t really mind because I just read the articles anyway, but it is surprising when I go to the Orion's web site and it has ten times the features. I guess it just goes to show that the younger generation is already moving forward and older media outlets are being left behind in the dust.
Here is SF Chronicle's sorry excuse for an online paper: http://www.sfgate.com/chronicle/
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