Newspapers will thrive if editors know how to make the news relevant, urgent and fast. “All journalists are constantly endangered if they don’t change every day.”
Predictor: Loeb, Marshall
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 article he wrote for Editor & Publisher, George Garneau reports on “The Future of Print Journalism in the Digital Age,” a Cambridge, Mass., conference held in May and sponsored by Computer Sciences Corp. After talking with Marshall Loeb of Fortune magazine, Garneau writes:”Fortune magazine editor Marshall Loeb said poor people will always need print media because they are likely to be locked out of the market for expensive electronic services. Loeb urged information businesses not to expand the gap separating society’s haves and have-nots. The challenge for journalists is the ‘race for content,’ Loeb said. Predicting significant increases in the value of information and a major role for flat-panel technology, he said newspapers will thrive if editors know how to make the news relevant, urgent and fast. ‘All journalists are constantly endangered if they don’t change every day,’ he said.”
Date of prediction: May 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: Newspapers
Name of publication: Editor & Publisher
Title, headline, chapter name: Techies Meet with Journalists
Quote Type: Partial quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
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