Not Comics: Michael Nielsen On Why On-Line News Is Killing Newspapers

More than a few of you have sent me this Michael Nielsen analysis of newspapers vs. on-line news that builds to a bigger, article-defining point about the potential future of scientific publishing. There's a lot of interesting thinking in there, although I don't think the competition is as clean as this article would have it, doesn't exist at all in several markets that are still experiencing a decline in the newspaper model's effectiveness, and I have no idea where that $1000 photo figure comes from or how many newspapers to which that could possibly apply. In fact, when I worked for a 35,000 circulation newspaper, we were always encouraged to assign "art" (meaning photos) because it was emphasized to us how cheap it was to have one of the guys swing by and run through a roll of film. There's an idea throughout that piece that I think underlines a point made here, that not enough has been done by papers to employ technology in a way to reduce costs and increase workplace capacity.
 
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