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The future of a newspaper will soon be dead - Osoba

Isaac Eranga, Benin Former governor of Ogun State, Chief Olusegun Osoba said the future of a newspaper is fizzling out and will soon be dead. Olusegun Osoba, yesterday, also lamented the damage caused to print journalism by what he described as the unbalanced writing of untrained internet reporters. He said the internet invaders have become tools in the hands of people like the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, blackmailing people, maligning people’s character. “We too must invade the internet. I want to appeal to all professionals in this industry, the future of a newspaper as we know it today, is fizzling out and it will soon be dead. Osoba, who delivered the chairman’s address at the launch of a book ‘One day and a story’, written by Mr. Dare Babarinsa, co-founder of Tell magazine, said internet invaders as well as declining interest in regular newspapers had put journalism in danger", he said According to the ex governor, “Our p...