" Print News is Dead, Long Live Print News!
Monday, March 26th, 2007;
-- Andy Beal |
Did you enjoy the spring weather this weekend? If you were outside for most of the weekend, you likely missed the debate on the future of print news, started by a rumor from Tim O’Reilly.
I’m hearing rumors that the San Francisco Chronicle is in big trouble. Apparently, Phil Bronstein, the editor-in-chief, told staff in a recent “emergency meeting” that the news business “is broken, and no one knows how to fix it.” (”And if any other paper says they do, they’re lying.”) Reportedly, the paper plans to announce more layoffs before the year is out.
That started a huge debate with many bloggers discussing whether print news is dead or not.
Mathew Ingram from Toronto’s The Globe and Mail suggested it’s mixed news for print…
…plenty of people are also getting their news from free papers, which have been growing at an incredible rate. That definitely means trouble for the newspaper industry’s current business models, but not necessarily for print itself. But there are still hundreds of millions of people subscribing to newspapers, and likely will be for decades, even if that number decreases.
Robert Scoble believes that his “son would never subscribe to, nor read, a newspaper” and doesn’t hold out much hope for newspapers"
Read it all : http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/03/print-news-is-dead-long-live-print-news.html
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