How Internet Affects The Newspaper Business - 1543 Words

Modern technology has made a significant impact on many types of businesses. The ease of access to information through the internet utilizing devices such as smartphones, tablets, and computers has led many business to change or reinvent its marketing and sales structure in reaching out to potential customers. While this benefited many businesses, the digital age put lots of pressure on newspaper companies. Many people enjoys the benefit of receiving their newspapers digital which caused a significant reduction in the paper delivery of newspapers. In the article â€Å"How Internet Affects the Newspaper Business† by C. Taylor, the author mentions between 2001 and 2009, daily newspapers reduced overall newsroom staff by 25 percent. With labor†¦show more content†¦Today, I don’t believe America puts enough concern or research on how the impact of technology will affect unemployment over the next twenty years. If technology or bots start running many businesses, I believe that it would put many workers out of work, but at the same time increasing job opportunities for repairmen and electricians for repairs maintenance, and upgrades of systems. The United States is losing many jobs to other countries. While many American likes’ products that are made in America, many manufacturers started shifting major high-tech manufacturing jobs to Asia where there is cheaper labor cost. The government has done many things to help keep jobs in the country such as tax breaks and other incentives for companies who manufacture and create jobs in United States. In the article, â€Å"U.S. Loosing High-Tech Manufacturing Jobs to Asia† by Peter Whoriskey, the author mentions that the United States lost more than a quarter of its high-tech manufacturing jobs during the past decade as U.S. based multinational companies placed a growing percentage of their research and development operations overseas. Some things that our government have done to keep jobs in the United States is making manufacturing jobs more competitive through innovation and engineering. Today, there is double the amount of U.S. based multinationals performing rese arch overseas. In Asia, there has been a significant growth of technology and global