Who Killed the Newspaper?
From SNPA: The Economist asserts “the business of selling words to readers and selling readers to advertisers, which has sustained (newspapers’) role in society, is falling apart.” Newspapers that haven’t already migrated to the Web will either do so or disappear, the magazine predicts. It notes print circulation has been plunging in America, Western Europe, Latin America, Australia and New Zealand for decades, although newspaper sales have curiously been rising in other parts of the world.
Here’s what Oliver Luft, editor of Britain’s The Guardian newspaper, has to say in response.