Newspaper industry

Old idea, new media

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Alan Gardner December 13, 2005 1 minute 0 comments

According to this business columnist, the newspaper industry is in a great position to make the leap into the internet world.

Publishers are struggling to develop a new business model to reap revenue from users of a medium who from the Internet’s earliest days have usually balked at paying for content.

Yet for all that, we may be at the dawn of a new golden age of newspapers.

The industry’s baby steps to date in embracing the Internet and its 900 million users will likely accelerate into a full-blown renaissance, as newspapers evolve into gateways to the Internet ? Web portals where people go for a broad array of information and services.