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October 19, 2006
Newspapers Survival
Tremendously thoughtful article by the editor of the Roanoke Times, Mike Riley (in the Harvard Journalism School's journal).
Newspapers are widely considered the most endangered of any segment of traditional publishing. But absolutely no hangdog attitude here: the positivity with which these guys have embraced the digital publishing revolution is incredibly refreshing. To reinvent newspaper they realized they "need to split the word 'newspaper' apart and realize that it's the 'news' that's most important and not the 'paper.'" This is the kind of constructive and forward-thinking mindset we all should be striving for to make "Publishing 2.0" a reality [via Peter Brantley]. Heck if newspapers can reinvent themselves, despite the intense pressure from TV, online news, and Google, there's absolutely not excuse not to think positively in reinventing trade, magazine and textbook publishing too.
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