Comments on: Wither Goest the Newspaperman? Why Blogging is Killing Print Media. http://problogservice.com/2010/07/28/wither-goest-the-newspaperman-why-blogging-is-killing-print-media/ Number one business blogging agency Tue, 22 May 2012 16:11:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Erik Deckers http://problogservice.com/2010/07/28/wither-goest-the-newspaperman-why-blogging-is-killing-print-media/#comment-1846 Erik Deckers Wed, 04 Aug 2010 05:04:23 +0000 http://problogservice.com/?p=2334#comment-1846 Hi Scott, I still think there is a place for newspapers, at least for the next 15 - 20 years. We still don't have high-speed Internet or computers in every home. There are still a lot of seniors who have never used a computer. And there are thousands of small towns that have weekly newspapers that are still profitable. I also think the next big thing in big city news gathering is going to be someone who figures out a way to aggregate local bloggers and citizen journalists and figures out a new way to make money from it. It's that figuring out the new way that's going to be the tricky part. Erik Hi Scott,

I still think there is a place for newspapers, at least for the next 15 – 20 years. We still don’t have high-speed Internet or computers in every home. There are still a lot of seniors who have never used a computer. And there are thousands of small towns that have weekly newspapers that are still profitable.

I also think the next big thing in big city news gathering is going to be someone who figures out a way to aggregate local bloggers and citizen journalists and figures out a new way to make money from it. It’s that figuring out the new way that’s going to be the tricky part.

Erik

]]> By: Scott http://problogservice.com/2010/07/28/wither-goest-the-newspaperman-why-blogging-is-killing-print-media/#comment-1764 Scott Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:02:54 +0000 http://problogservice.com/?p=2334#comment-1764 I have very little sympathy for a business model that refuses to evolve. You see it from "legit reporters" hating on bloggers all the way up to Rupert Murdoch ranting about Google "stealing his content." Like it or not, the Internet is a game-changer for providing the news because it's a lot quicker to transmit a headline to a reader's smart phone than it is to print it on a dead tree and deliver it curbside. It's no longer news tomorrow morning if I already heard about it today. I do agree that it's kind of sad that more in the news industry haven't chosen to embrace this new technology because I think a lot of jobs could've been salvaged and we'd be flooded with great content to read. Instead, we get the same 4 articles reprinted across the country, and they wonder why we'd rather turn to bloggers for our news. I have very little sympathy for a business model that refuses to evolve. You see it from “legit reporters” hating on bloggers all the way up to Rupert Murdoch ranting about Google “stealing his content.” Like it or not, the Internet is a game-changer for providing the news because it’s a lot quicker to transmit a headline to a reader’s smart phone than it is to print it on a dead tree and deliver it curbside. It’s no longer news tomorrow morning if I already heard about it today.

I do agree that it’s kind of sad that more in the news industry haven’t chosen to embrace this new technology because I think a lot of jobs could’ve been salvaged and we’d be flooded with great content to read. Instead, we get the same 4 articles reprinted across the country, and they wonder why we’d rather turn to bloggers for our news.

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