The future of news organizations is near:
In 2009, the Monitor will become the first nationally circulated newspaper to replace its daily print edition with its website; the 100 year-old news organization will also offer subscribers weekly print and daily e-mail editions.
It’s hard to predict where this is all heading but the trend seems to be away from the paper product to the paperless one. More fiery discussion on that below. Many believe the paper will transition online in some form. I have to agree. We’ll see consolidation of resources to online delivery with photography and video playing a big part there. The question in my mind is what percentage of the 18 – 40 demographic will continue to read through portals vs direct news organizations and will we start to see a partnering of the old papers with other outlets like tv stations and more established online organizations like TPM.
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