Future of news blog; Death of newspaper — Myth or reality?

Across the globe, owners, managers and editors are kept awake over the uncertain future of their industry.

Some analysts paint a gloomy picture of the newspaper industry, saying it will end up in the graveyard; pushed to an early death by a number of factors which includes access to “free news” online and inherently very reduced hardcopy sales.

Newspapers were born in 59 B.C. when Acta Diurna was published in Rome.

Since then, there is ample evidence about the significant role they play in our societies generally and as a pillar of democracy in particular.

In recent times, there is a major revolution in the media landscape fueled largely by the widespread and ubiquitous availability of new digital technologies.

Currently over 50 per cent of the world’s total population are unique mobile phone users sending over 8.7 trillion SMS messages annually with other applications such as WhatsApp, which is very popular in Ghana, recording over 50 billion