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Monday, March 5, 2007
An optimistic view 
| | ...if the dailies do their jobs, the next generation will still read newspapers—online. |
| | My reporting suggests that many big dailies have turned the corner, though only barely and just in time, that newspapers have started down a financially and journalistically viable path of becoming hybrids, without losing the professional culture that makes them uniquely valuable. |
| | Assuming that most dailies survive the transition, my guess is that in twenty-five years they will be mostly digital; that even people like me of the pre-Internet generation will be largely won over by ingenious devices like Times Reader, supplemented by news alerts, rss feeds, and God knows what else. But whether newspapers are print or Web matters far less than whether they maintain their historic calling. |
| | Their historic calling, by the way, included the sanctioning of free archives in city and school libraries. Now those archives need to be free on the Web. Just like last Thursday's paper. |
Old clues, new training
Freedom to Dig
| | I'm digging the Freedom to Connect (F2C) conference, where I was slated to attend until local necessities required staying home. Still, I'm "there" by group chat and webcast. It's a good show. |
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