Trees rejoice
: The Washington Post sums up the woes of the newspaper industry.
“Print is dead,” Sports Illustrated President John Squires told a room full of newspaper and magazine circulation executives at a conference in Toronto in November. His advice? “Get over it,” meaning publishers should stop trying to save their ink-on-paper product and focus on electronic delivery of their journalism.
It’s not dead. But it’s not growing. And in an economy that demands growth, that smells like death.
The story has nothing radically news but it is a good sum of the state of the business. More later…