Newspapers losing out in education

A story from the Usa on the Editors Weblog which suggest that newspapers are struggling to be used in education.The survey by the Carnegie-Knight Task Force on the Future of Journalism Education reports


57% of teachers use online based news somewhat frequently, compared to 31% who use national television news and 28% who use daily newspapers."Students do not relate to newspapers at all, any more than they would to vinyl records," said one of teachers in the study. 75% of teachers placed ‘newspapers’ at the bottom of a list for students’ favorite information sources.The study seemed to find that newspapers were the own cause for their diminishing role in classrooms. Many local newspapers have made no efforts to promote their online editions in schools.