The newspaper is such a pivotal piece of society. It's heartbreaking to go to a photojournalism conference that used to be 400 newspaper photographers, and now

The newspaper is such a pivotal piece of society. It's heartbreaking to go to a photojournalism conference that used to be 400 newspaper photographers, and now there's maybe a handful. Everyone is doing editorial or surviving on grants and corporate work. I was in journalism school when the industry collapsed. I saw it coming early on and moved to TV work, an industry that I'm seeing make similar mistakes and is taking steps towards its own demise. But TV has a lot more money and will bleed out much slower. My local paper in unbearable though. So much to the point where if it wasn't for a cops and courts section there wouldn't be much point to it at all. But then again, NPR has it's highest ratings ever. So maybe there's some unknown hope still out there. Radio moved towards digital delivery and podcasts, but the newspaper is a far more complex problem. I don't think general society cares about real news anymore. Maybe we just don't have the attention span for what it takes to matter. I don't see a new medium making a difference.