There is a fatal flaw in David Simon’s understanding of today’s news reader that allows him to make this assertion in his call for subscription-only news:
For example, if The Baltimore Sun’s product isn’t available in any other fashion than through subscription—online or off—and if there is no profit to be had in delivering the paper [...]
Entries from July 2009
July 17, 2009
The new way is two-way in Journalism
In Brian Lehrer’s conversation with Chris Anderson, author of FREE: The Future of a Radical Price, Lehrer questions Anderson’s notion that today’s journalists will evolve to be editors/coaches of unpaid, amateur content producers. It may sound like older journalists grasping at the straws of job security, but that’s where we are headed, and their experience [...]
