The New York Times has authored a multi-pronged piece on the future of newspapers called "Battle Plan for Newspapers" that is worth reading.
For a topic that too often has been addressed from a backward-looking view, aka "How to SAVE Newspapers", the NYT piece is refreshingly forward-looking. Sure, it catalogues the litany of financial obstacles facing print. But then it moves forward.
In particular, the inclusion of multiple "essays" offering divergent scenarios for the Newspaper of the Future are provocative.
Anyone who claims to be certain about the future form of what has been The Newspaper should be distrusted, but the Times has done a real service by pushing the dialogue away from finger-pointing and 'preserving the existing order' and instead focusing on what newspapers might become.
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