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11:06 Audio Copy:To stem the loss, news organizations are rolling out technological alternatives that allow people to get their news in different ways and, in many cases, decide how, when and where they want to receive it. With regularly updated Web sites, downloadable news videos and new innovations such as Really Simple Syndication (RSS), newspapers and networks are giving people the tools to customize their news.
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News organizations across the country, from network news to daily newspapers, are losing their audience. Newspapers especially are suffering one of the worst circulation declines in recent years.
To stem the loss, news organizations are rolling out technological alternatives that allow people to get their news in different ways and, in many cases, decide how, when and where they want to receive it. With regularly updated Web sites, downloadable news videos and new innovations such as Really Simple Syndication (RSS), newspapers and networks are giving people the tools to customize their news.
On top of these technologies, an emerging citizen, or participatory, journalism movement is further redefining how people get their news by enabling them to contribute stories and photographs of events themselves.
Tonight, NewsHour media correspondent Terence Smith examines some of these new media technologies and their impact on the news consumer and on journalism in general.
Visit http://www.pbs.org/newshour/media after 9p.m. Eastern time for more information on this segment.