5月8日
NEWS worthy Clips
Update your vocabulary with news clips from around the world
Papers not a must read
It’s 9:30 a.m. and Josh Darrah has settled in with a cup of coffee and his laptop at his university’s student center. It’s time to check up on the world beyond the campus. He speeds across the Internet, visiting “nerd news sites,” as he calls his favorite tech news pages. Some will have links to world news stories that he may click on. But he won’t be visiting any newspaper Web sites and he certainly won’t be reading an actual paper.
No wonder some worry that the newspaper industry’s future looks bleak. A generation is growing up with a new array of information options: partisan Internet blogs, Web pages devoted to news on a single subject, and portals like Yahoo that aggregate news from numerous sources.
The newspaper industry has been trying to reinvent itself with its online presence and specialized youth-oriented publications. But circulation woes keep getting worse. Additionally, ad revenue is stagnant and newsprint costs are rising. Layoffs are the story of the day at many papers.
Newspapers’ virtues have long been their timely and localized delivery of news. The Internet does that one better, with even more timeliness, and not just localization but personalization.
“The Internet is the greatest medium ever invented for the delivery of news,” said Merrill Brown, former chief editor of MSNBC. ”It is, by definition, on demand,” he said.
But not everyone is giving up on newspapers. Kevin Levy, a college freshman, is the type of reader that gives the newspaper industry hope.
His morning routine at the student center also includes sitting down with his laptop and surfing the Internet. But Levy, who’s studying broadcast video production, faithfully stops each day at three newspaper sites: the Chicago Tribune, the suburban Daily Herald and the Kane Country Chronicle.
Levy grew up in a household that subscribed to a newspaper. He read the paper growing up and reads it now, along with newspaper Web sites. He prefers reading hard copy.
“I’ve been doing it for so long, it seems natural,” he said.
Specialized Terms
Portal (n) 入口网站，门户网站 a company that provides pages on the Internet that people use to search the World Wide Web
Revenue (n) 收入 all the income produced by a particular source
Hard copy (n) 纸本 text that is printed on paper
Vocabulary Focus
Settle in (v) to get comfortable in a place in order to stay there for a long time
Bleak (adj) offering little or no hope
Partisan (adj) strongly supporting a person, principle or political party
Aggregate (v) to gather or collect into a whole
Circulation (n) 发行量
Stagnant (adj) not growing or increasing
Chicago Tribune 芝加哥论坛报
Daily Herald 每日前锋报
Kane County Chronicle 肯恩郡《记事报》
Discussion Question
From what sources do you get your news? How important is it to you to stay informed about what is going on in the world?
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