Georgia State University ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University Communication Theses Department of Communication 7-12-2005 Preserving the American Community Newspaper in an Age of New Media Convergence and Competition Stephen Michael Wilson Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/communication_theses Part of the Communication Commons Recommended Citation Wilson, Stephen Michael, "Preserving the American Community Newspaper in an Age of New Media Convergence and Competition." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2005. https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/communication_theses/2 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Department of Communication at ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Communication Theses by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Preserving the American Community Newspaper in an Age of New Media Convergence and Competition by Steve Wilson Under the Direction of David Cheshier ABSTRACT The intention of this project is to provide broad based and practical advice for American community newspapers. Print editions of papers have experienced stagnation and decline over the past several decades and today face an increasingly complex media environment, and as a result there is the potential for them to be rendered obsolete. Competition with technology based media, or technomedia, is the primary catalyst for this decline. Through a combination of background research