» Are newspapers doomed?
From an article in the American Journalism Review (via LAO):
Groves can still see a future for small local newspapers—those with circulation under 25,000. And he thinks a few large ones with special advantages—the Post, the New York Times and some others—will make the transition to a digital news product, with print as a supplemental business. “But a lot of other major metros won’t do that,” he says. “Papers like the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Globe, the Dallas Morning News—some of them will make the transition to the digital world. Some of them will not.”Scary. Not simply because newspapers are great, but because democracy relies on free press and an informed public. It’s a matter of public policy.
So where will people get their news?
“What you’ll see fill in the gap is more and more free distribution papers that will also have a digital tie-in. You’ll see stronger growth of neighborhood weeklies in urban communities. I see a world where you’re going to have a paper like the New York Times, with its digital piece, and then you get the local news elsewhere.”
