臺灣報紙受平台科技影響：新聞與民主的警訊

Negative Impact from Platforms on Print Newspaper: The Alert for Journlism and Democracy in Taiw

Due to the power of online technology, the cross-nations-platforms have the benefits of advertisings. The legacy media, especially newspapers were affected most. Based on in-depth interview, this paper interviewed three main newspapers to figure out the adverse impact from the platforms. This article found: first, the local journalists and foreign corresponds of newspapers have decreased seriously, the freedom of market place is hurt. Second, the online advertising developed 616%, the print advertising declined over 90%. The low income for newspapers is hard to maintain the quality of reporting. Third, More Than half (52%-58%) traffic of online news websites are from Google and Facebook. The dependency on platform is obvious in the business of newspapers. This paper argues the serious problems in the decline of newspapers for Taiwan government and citizens to concern and adopt some ways to save journalism and democracy.