We stumbled across an interesting article from The Atlantic:

“Plummeting newspaper circulation, disappearing classified ads, “unbundling” of content—the list of what’s killing journalism is long. But high on that list, many would say, is Google, the biggest unbundler of them all. Now, having helped break the news business, the company wants to fix it—for commercial as well as civic reasons: if news organizations stop producing great journalism, says one Google executive, the search engine will no longer have interesting content to link to. So some of the smartest minds at the company are thinking about this, and working with publishers, and peering ahead to see what the future of journalism looks like. Guess what? It’s bright.”

The only problem is, is that “Plummeting newspaper circulation, disappearing classified ads, “unbundling” of content”, have nothing to do with journalism whatsoever, they’re specific to the newspaper industry only. I don’t know about you, but 75-90% of the people I know find their news online from a large variety of sources: news agencies, social Media, news-oriented websites, radio, blogs, etc. The Newspaper industry while bleeding, is still a profit-heavy business. With this being said, the article DOES have a lot of interesting information on Google’s effect on the Newspaper industry