Comments on: Newspapers: A New Period of Decline http://www.davidhenderson.com/2009/03/12/newspapers-a-new-period-of-decline/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=newspapers-a-new-period-of-decline Writer, communications strategist, Emmy Award winning former CBS News correspondent Fri, 18 May 2012 13:09:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Erika Owens http://www.davidhenderson.com/2009/03/12/newspapers-a-new-period-of-decline/#comment-2593 Erika Owens Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:44:34 +0000 http://www.davidhenderson.com/?p=2868#comment-2593 Technology is helping to shift communications into the future. This progression is an exciting thing to be a part of and just as stated above, i think that newspapers can survive if they switch their focus online. Great post. Technology is helping to shift communications into the future. This progression is an exciting thing to be a part of and just as stated above, i think that newspapers can survive if they switch their focus online. Great post.

]]> By: Jamie Turner http://www.davidhenderson.com/2009/03/12/newspapers-a-new-period-of-decline/#comment-2592 Jamie Turner Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:20:42 +0000 http://www.davidhenderson.com/?p=2868#comment-2592 It is amazing how quickly the world has changed. I wonder if our great grandparents felt the same way when automobiles replaced the horse and buggy. Of course, that took decades, not years. I believe the long-term business model will be that content is delivered online with the convenience of it being delivered to your doorstep on printed form, too. In other words, in 10 years when this has all played out and many of the newspapers have folded, the ambitious online content providers will reverse course and begin offering home delivery for people who want both again. Of course, that'll all take about 10 years to play out, but keep an eye on it. You heard it here first. ;-) It is amazing how quickly the world has changed. I wonder if our great grandparents felt the same way when automobiles replaced the horse and buggy. Of course, that took decades, not years.

I believe the long-term business model will be that content is delivered online with the convenience of it being delivered to your doorstep on printed form, too. In other words, in 10 years when this has all played out and many of the newspapers have folded, the ambitious online content providers will reverse course and begin offering home delivery for people who want both again.

Of course, that’ll all take about 10 years to play out, but keep an eye on it. You heard it here first.

;-)

]]> By: Paul Sevensky http://www.davidhenderson.com/2009/03/12/newspapers-a-new-period-of-decline/#comment-2590 Paul Sevensky Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:25:34 +0000 http://www.davidhenderson.com/?p=2868#comment-2590 I think it's too late to save the printed product, but the online versions may still survive with the right business model. I'm old enough to have seen a Linotype machine (father a typesetter), and the decline of printed newspapers has been going on for some time. The digital world means that virtually anything in "hard" news that you read in a paper is long-outdated before it hits your doorstep -- not much way to overcome that. I think it’s too late to save the printed product, but the online versions may still survive with the right business model.

I’m old enough to have seen a Linotype machine (father a typesetter), and the decline of printed newspapers has been going on for some time. The digital world means that virtually anything in “hard” news that you read in a paper is long-outdated before it hits your doorstep — not much way to overcome that.

]]> By: Steve Hoechster http://www.davidhenderson.com/2009/03/12/newspapers-a-new-period-of-decline/#comment-2587 Steve Hoechster Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:34:39 +0000 http://www.davidhenderson.com/?p=2868#comment-2587 Talk to anyone who actually saw a linotype machine, watched huge rolls of paper get unloaded from flatbed trucks down from Canada or some other vestiage of the ink-stained days of old newspapering and they will be quick to tell you the biggest cost -- and dollar drain -- was production + distribution. If the remaining press barons would simply grab hold of this amazing opportunity -- using "The Internets" -- I suspect they'd be a a better mood and place on the dummy-smart-guy scale. By taking this (much delayed) step we might even see more and better reporting. Remember, there's a reason no one asks an ostrich for directions. Talk to anyone who actually saw a linotype machine, watched huge rolls of paper get unloaded from flatbed trucks down from Canada or some other vestiage of the ink-stained days of old newspapering and they will be quick to tell you the biggest cost — and dollar drain — was production + distribution.

If the remaining press barons would simply grab hold of this amazing opportunity — using “The Internets” — I suspect they’d be a a better mood and place on the dummy-smart-guy scale.

By taking this (much delayed) step we might even see more and better reporting.

Remember, there’s a reason no one asks an ostrich for directions.

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