August 26, 2008
CSM: The Future of Newspapers?
I think Alex Beam has it right:
One place where the future remains unevenly distributed is the newspaper business. The country’s most successful dailies are enduring draconian cutbacks in personnel and coverage. Some of the also-rans are disappearing altogether. What no one knows is: What will the newspaper of the future look like? Maybe it will look like The Christian Science Monitor.
I’m a subscriber. I enjoy the Monitor for its compact size and attempts at greater depth, context, and complexity. This would be a good future for American newspapers.
The Monitor’s circulation is low right now. But the idea of it is something newspapers might be able to grow on.
Tags: journalism, rhetoric
Posted by acline | August 26, 2008 | Posted in: Uncategorized |
