Sunday, May 17, 2009

How Our News Sources Changed in the Last 200+ Years

Our primary sources of information in the last 200 years - Timeline

In the early 19th century, the only way to get news was face-to-face
communication but that started to change with the advent of printed
newspapers and magazines in the 1900s.

Then came radio, followed by Television which still dominate the
medium but people are quickly moving away from traditional media as
Internet websites and social networks are fast becoming our primary
sources of news and information.

This shift in the way we consume information has been brilliantly
captured in these graphs by Thomas Baekdal who also predicts that
traditional media reporting on newspapers, Television & Radio will
disappear by 2020 to be replaced by social news.

"The traditional journalistic reporting is by now completely replaced
getting information directly from the source. Everyone is a potential
reporter, but new advances in targeting will eliminate most of the
noise. The journalists will turn into editors who, instead of
reporting the news, bring it together [from citizen journalists or
live sources like Twitter] to give us a bigger picture."

Read Detail: http://www.baekdal.com/articles/Management/market-of-information/

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