Reports of the media’s death are premature
Paul Smalera makes several good points in his piece, including these:
Paul Smalera
* “It’s unfair for any old-media advocate to say that the revenue model for media (or any industry moving toward digital) is broken.”
* “Newspapers are in a bad spot [because] they have been trapped in a terrible mindset that they are in the business of selling newspapers. The leap from paper to digital may be vast, but to newspaper publishers, it seemed like vaulting to a different business entirely, one they were loathe to get into.”
* “The information an audience wants is now a company’s most important asset and the one that needs the most investment and care. In other words, the fear that the online media represent the death knell of serious reporting is 180 degrees from reality.”
* The recession killed journalism — and saved it
