The Wall Street Times is one of the largest newspapers in the country. It has subscribers from all walks of life from coast to coast. However, are those readers actually getting out of the newspaper what they were looking for in the beginning?

I honestly don’t think so.

In today’s times there isn’t a real reason to have a subscription to a newspaper at all. You can get your news from the internet or 24 hour cable news. The news on regular non-cable television is even on for hours a day now. People are becoming increasingly aware of the move to a more digital form of the news.

There is a downside of the news becoming completely digital; print journalists are losing their jobs. Newspapers all across the country are going out of business and while newspapers like the Wall Street Journal don’t seem to be doing too badly right now, they have had to begin charging for information on its website to make up for the amount of readers its losing in subscriptions.

The good thing for the newspapers is that they aren’t having to pay as much for printing services and publishing services simply because they don’t need the same amount of supplies.

Overall, I feel as though newspapers in their current print form will likely become more and more scarce. I think that many local newspapers will hurt the worst and many will go out of business altogether.

As funny as it may seem, in the past few weeks (contrary to exactly how I feel) another print newspaper has been showing up in my town of 20,000. I completely did not expect for there to be another print newspaper here ever. With three local newspapers/publications in the county, the market is over covered.

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Every Tuesday and Thursday I walk into the Journalism school and am greeted with newspaper front pages from around the state and country all from large monitors, above them are large LCD TV’s broadcasting the daily news from MSNBC or CNN. It is supposed to cover both aspects of Journalism: print and broadcast. However, some of those print students are having a hard time with the idea that in 10 years there may not even be printed daily newspapers anymore. (That may be a stretch, but local newspapers will have to face that option in the future).

Adding to the worries, the Journal Register filed for bankruptcy protection today following on the heels of the Tribune Company (which publishes the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune and the Sun of Baltimore) and The Star Tribune of Minneapolis.

Declining ad sales and the availability, ease and promptness of obtaining news on the internet has led to the decrease in newspaper sales and some companies filing for bankruptcy protection to attempt to reorganize their businesses.