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Newspapers continue to thrive despite the contrary

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Photo courtesy of Zoetnet on Flickr

Newspapers are dying out. Traditional media is becoming extinct. Everything is being digitized. As one who originally went to college to pursue a journalism career, I changed career paths shortly after graduating because the buzz about the dwindling newspaper industry scared me right out of my mind. [...]

Changes at USA Today Herald New Era for Print Journalism

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When USA Today launched in 1982, it heralded a new era for print journalism, featuring briefer articles and more colorful designs, photos and illustrations in newspapers. Twenty-eight years later, the second most widely read newspaper in the U.S. is changing the game again.

Recently, USA Today announced a reorganization of its newsroom, eliminating 130 jobs [...]

Is Twitter Helping Millennials Destroy the English Language?

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Earlier this year, Maria Enie discussed the impact of texting on the English language in this blog post. While I understand that texting and micro-blogging is part of an evolution of the English language, I am concerned that the informal texting language is becoming the English language for Millennials. This Ragan.com article discusses the [...]

New Research Reveals Characteristics of Millennial Generation

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This guest blog post is by Leah Holmes-Bonilla, a Senior Account Supervisor and the Multicultural Services Manager at Vanguard Communications.

Have you ever mused about wanting to live in a world with a generation of self-assured, enthusiastic, forward-thinking and culturally diverse young people? Think no more because they are here. Fifty million 18-to-29-year-olds make up [...]

If You Want to Reach Teens, Don't Bother to E-mail Them

My almost-teenager demonstrates what a new study from the Pew Research Center confirms–youth ages 12-17 aren’t using e-mail anymore. Headlines earlier this week focused on the hundreds of texts that teens send daily, but I found their lack of e-mail use even more fascinating. The study showed that 58 percent of teens text, while only 11 percent use e-mail. In fact, more teens are using landlines (33 percent) than e-mail. Is e-mail the new snail [...]