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Who Killed The Newspaper?

Newspapers have gone from being a digitally challenged medium to being an "endangered species," The Economist asserts in "Who Killed The Newspaper." The article claims "the business of selling words to readers and selling readers to advertisers, which has sustained their role in society, is falling apart." Newspapers that haven't already migrated to the Web will either do so or disappear, the magazine predicts. It notes that print circulation has been plunging in America, Western Europe, Latin American, Australia and New Zealand for decades, although print newspaper sales have curiously been rising in other parts of the world.

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