Writers’ markets are changing: quality journalism’s tanking

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The world of writing - journalism, traditional book publishing, and freelance writing - is changing fast.

Here in Australia, this week brought the sad demise of The Bulletin magazine, a quality news magazine that’s been published for 128 years. As a very young writer, my ambition was to be published in The Bulletin.

Newspapers and magazines are not what they once were, and it’s sad.

TechCrunch’s article “If “Real Journalism” Fails As A Business, Should Government Step In?” notes:

The chart to the right, which shows the stock price of the New York Times Company over the last five years, is somewhat representative of the state of print journalism in general. They’re getting their lunch eaten on the revenue end by Craigslist and (to a lesser extent) on the page view end by blogs and other alternative news sources.

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