Monday, October 10, 2005
Forget Blogs, Print Needs Its Own IPod - New York Times
Forget Blogs, Print Needs Its Own IPod - New York Times: "That is the future that newspapers have to prepare for. Readers no longer care so much who you are, they just want to know what you know.
That may sound grim for big media brands, the kind of proposition that will not provide enough cash flow to finance a squad of reporters examining what a hurricane left behind or venturing out onto the streets of Baghdad. But in a frantic age where the quality of the information can be critical, being a reliable news source humming away in everyone's backpack sounds just useful enough to be a business."
That may sound grim for big media brands, the kind of proposition that will not provide enough cash flow to finance a squad of reporters examining what a hurricane left behind or venturing out onto the streets of Baghdad. But in a frantic age where the quality of the information can be critical, being a reliable news source humming away in everyone's backpack sounds just useful enough to be a business."