By Jillian Andrews SYRACUSE, N.Y. (NCC News) – Starting in September, Starbucks will remove all newspapers from stores. The coffee giant has been selling newspapers for nearly two decades. USA Today, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times will all be taken off shelves.
“I think it is sad, but inevitable that Starbucks is not going to be carrying newspapers anymore,” said Aileen Gallagher, Journalism Professor at Syracuse University.
Gallagher has ten years of experience in magazine and digital journalism.
“Now that’s not the same as to say that the news is gone, because the news is more popular than ever and people are engaging with it more than ever they’re just doing it in a different way.”
Gallagher says this is just another example of newspapers losing popularity. Consumers are not buying newspapers anymore, and the younger generation reads the news on smartphones.
25 years from now, Gallagher says she wouldn’t be surprised if newspapers were obsolete.
