The first report on the newspaper crisis (from 1981)
No one in the newspaper industry can argue they didn’t see the internet coming. According to this newscast they have been working on online distribution for nearly three decades. Most papers still haven’t worked out a sustainable business model - I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that the $5-an-hour idea in this report probably won’t catch on. My guess is the papers that survive 2009 will be operating online more like the WSJ than the NYT.
via Futurethink
February 15th, 2009 at 9:27 pm
I don’t know about that. NYT is pretty forward-looking, what with their hand-coded CSS and now they’re opening up APIs. Tag-based news mashups through an open API sounds pretty cool and APIs are relatively easy to monetize.