Interview

Sadia

Personal:
S: I used to subscribe to Vogue but I didn't renew it because it was just gathering dust. I can find everything that is in the magazine on the internet. I don't even have to go on a computer, I can access it all on my phone. So why carry a magazine when I can just see it on my phone?
J: I subscribe to Entertainment Weekly but other than that I don't buy magazines. I like GQ and Details Magazine but I don't buy the magazines because they post up all their main articles and features online. So why spend the money when I can get the articles online?

Online
S: For people commuting to work, having an ipad is easier. You can just read the paper on your ipad and you don't have to carry the actual newspaper. You also don't get your fingers dirty. And nowadays people are so into multitasking so not only can you read the paper online but you can check your email, your stocks, listen to music. Getting information on the internet is so much more accessible so why go through a magazine for information?
J: Who has time now to go to the store now and buy a magazine. With school, work, being a social butterfly, those five or ten minutes you spend going to the store and buying the magazine can be used for something else. So you don't have to go out of your way to stop at the store to get your magazine because you can easily go on the magazine's website on your phone and read their stuff while you're on the bus on your way to work.

Opinion:
S: With the world going green, it's just going to be unnecessary for magazines to continue being produced. It's bad for the environment and it is going to become to costly. People are gonna prioritize with paper and would much rather have paper used for textbooks and not magazines.
J: Being an aspiring journalist, it sucks to see the future of the physical magazine. But we have to adapt to the times and realize that the physical magazine is dying. As days go by, more people are not buying magazines and accessing their articles and features through technology so it doesn't make sense to continue making physical copies. We have to get those magazines to readers in different forms, like their websites, applications, phones, etc...

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