Does Print Have a Future?
Posted on April 11, 2008 - Filed Under citizen journalism |
It does, if you ask Ryan Blethen of the Seattle Times, who writes:
“I am convinced newspapers have a future. So do citizen journalism and blogging. The sustained success of these different news outlets can only help keep people informed. It is time to stop trumpeting a death that will not come and focus on the business of doing great journalism in whatever form that might be.”
I believe newspapers have a future as well — as online new media entities. The fact is that print is becoming obsolete at an astonishingly fast pace.
If newspaper shed the high costs of print they would be flush with cash to reinvigorate newsrooms. Think about that concept. More reporters, more editors, more international bureaus. We could reserve the trend of the last 15 years and provide more resources, not less, to our reporters.
And I’m not alone in my assessment. No less a newspaper man than Arthur Sulzberger, of the New York Times, said a year ago, “I really don’t know whether we’ll be printing the Times in five years and you know what? I don’t care, either.”
The fact of media today is this - Newspapers are magnificent, but so was Rome.
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