Online services will coexist with print for the foreseeable future and maybe forever … It isn’t an all-or-nothing proposition we are facing.
Predictor: Shepard, Stephen B.
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 article for The New York Times, Glenn Rifkin quotes Stephen Shepard, editor of BusinessWeek. Rifkin writes:”The consensus at a forum this week on the future of print journalism in the digital era was that there would be a future, in part because readers continued to see value in the printed page. For a couple of decades now, publishers have been warned that the digital age could make newspapers and magazines – and perhaps their staffs – obsolete. But at the Forum, sponsored by CSC Vanguard, a consulting arm of the Computer Sciences Corporation, even those who are developing ways to deliver information electronically said the printed page would persist. ‘Online services will coexist with print for the foreseeable future and maybe forever,’ said Stephen B. Shepard, editor in chief of Business Week, at the gathering of about 75 reporters, editors and publishers from newspapers, trade journals and magazines. ‘It isn’t an all-or-nothing proposition we are facing.'”
Date of prediction: May 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: New York Times
Title, headline, chapter name: The Media Business: Seeing the Future of Print in a Universe Gone Digital
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
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