The future of traditional journalism is at stake.

The advent of online news dissemination has put the traditional media companies into worry. The most affacteed is the print media. Fore example, in a report in Daily Trust of 4th April, 2010 about the dwindling sales of newspapers, one of the causes found was the coming of the Internet and online news reporting.
The survey also came out with this finding that in the 80's, the Daily Times Newspaper of Nigeria sold as many as 500,000 copies per day, but now all the current daily newspapers in Nigeria put together can not boast of a daily publishing of newspaper copies that reach that of the Daily Times in the golden era.
The global trend of Internet and screen reading habit has made the traditional media very hard to survive. With this, I strongly believe that the future of the traditional media is at stake as the new media has taken over the audience of the traditional media. But all hope is not lost just as we have seen in the American experience, traditional media will continue to survive. Only that it will never remain as it was.
I suggest that the traditional media should imbibe certain aspects of the online news or be vast and more creative in their style of news dissemination. So as to compete favourably with the rising new media.