Newspaper industry

The future of newspapers

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Alan Gardner January 10, 2006 1 minute 0 comments

Slate’s Michael Kinsley has a good article on the newspaper’s efforts to play catch-up in the new techno world.

Ten years later, newspapers are starting to panic again. But merely slobbering after bloggers may not be enough. In 1996, the oldest Americans who grew up with computers and don’t even understand my tiresome anecdotes about how people used to resist them (“What’s a typewriter, Mike?”) were just entering adulthood. Now they are most of the working population, or close to it.