Jim Stefan on the evolving news industry

Jim Stefan has witnessed the most significant shift in the news industry since the advent of the television in the 1900’s, when news was first introduced in the video medium. The introduction of television, however, did not result in as serious a decline in the popularity of daily, weekly, and monthly paper publications in the way that the internet has.

As the former newspaper publisher of the Sydney Tribune and Sydney Journal magazine, Jim Stefan is knows first-hand the dramatic changes that the publication industry has undergone in the last few decades.

While many popular publications are still printed regularly every day across the world, the popularity of online news mediums has permanently changed the publication industry. Jim Stefan knows that journalism has undergone systemic changes that will continue to widen with the growing popularity of other means of obtaining information and news.

Jim Stefan is a former member of the Journalists Association of Australia and spent much of the 1990’s as the publisher for some of Australia’s most prominent publications. Jim Stefan witnessed the direct impact that the internet made on the journalism sector, with increasing demand for news online. 

The definition of what is considered news itself has changed significantly since the mainstream introduction of the World Wide Web in 1996, a year in which Jim Stefan was the newspaper publisher for the Sydney Tribune and publisher of the Sydney Journal magazine. While tabloid and other alternative news publications have offered a customers with number of special-interest news categories for many years, modern news has become more inclusive of celebrity and other types of news that would not have previously not been covered by news media outlets.

Despite the constant changes that the field of journalism has undergone in the past 2 decades, Jim Stefan believes that it will remain a very valuable asset to businesses and society at large for many, many years to come.