Daryl Cagle on the Future of Print

The cartoonist and blogger Daryl Cagle has written a terrific essay on the bleak future facing print journalism (April 25 entry). It's a good read if you're not up on some of the basic problems in finding an on-line solution to the viability of the local newspaper, and has perhaps the best summary of the argument that newspapers aren't branded on-line and traffic is impossible to secure by simply showing up and doing what newspapers do best. That's one of what I'd say are the three big issues facing papers, along with lack of a comparable revenue model and an accelerating trend away from written news content.

Cagle gets into some even more interesting material when he talks about a few current trends in terms of their blind pursuit of solutions to problems that aren't defined enough yet to even have solutions.
 
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