News Questions – Answers

New media gets press makeover

questions

1. What is ‘under constant pressure’? budgets
2. Who is having a ‘self portrait’? the media
3. How is the image of the media described? glum
4. What is happening to newspaper circulation figures in Europe and the US? they are dwindling
5. What is underpinning the ‘mood of optimism’? multi-media
6. Why is geographical location significant? it partly determines their (the editors) views
7. Where are newspapers doing very well? the Far East
8. What is the situation in the West? newspapers are in trouble but new media is ‘jumping’
9. How were newspaper editors described in the past? ‘technophobes’
10. Who was technology left to? ‘eggheads’ and ‘geeks’
11. Where did they work? in Silicone Valley (California)
12. Who have been characterised as ‘resistant to technological change’? editors
13. How are the participants in the meeting described? ‘bigwigs’
14. What are ‘strained’? staffing levels
15. If organisations don’t adapt, what do they risk? irreversible decline