Techies Meet with Journalists
[Online and print media will coexist] for the forseeable future and maybe even forever … It ain’t an all-or-nothing proposition.
[Online and print media will coexist] for the forseeable future and maybe even forever … It ain’t an all-or-nothing proposition.
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.”
I’m a firm believer that electrons are a much better way to communicate than dead trees.
A lot of people will seek to make information prosthetics, but journalists need to think about amplification.
A newspaper’s branded identification “does add value.”
“The editor’s function is in my home.” With unlimited information available, computers would select what you need, based on preset parameters, by sorting through invisible identifying codes embedded in information. “Five to 10 years from now the material you’re writing will be written for machines, not people … The way stories are written has to include information about the stories.”
The worst of the “roadkill” aspects of the superhighway will be for libraries.
I don’t think anyone will give a shit … If people wanted videos-on-demand, there would be home deliveries of cassettes as well as pizzas by now. But I’ve never heard of them.
People will carry newspapers under their arms, but some will get it in other ways … Operational excellence might not be enough in your business … There are reasons to believe you might need a rethinking of the business.
There will be a credibility industry.