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I was browsing the news the other day, this article in particular, and amazingly there was something sensible in the comments section.
One user pointed me to this article: Newspapers and thinking the unthinkable
It really is worth the somewhat lengthy read, as it helped me map out, in my mind at least, what may happen in the near feature regarding newspapers (and perhaps commercial TV as well in the future).
The main points I took away from the article are:
- that we are facing a revolution in the way news is going to be collected and distributed
- no one knows who is going to pay for journalists to collect information when news organisations disappear, or change dramatically. In the past 100 years or so, journalism and newspapers (and their control on advertising revenue) walked hand in hand – not any more.
- we really have no idea on what the future holds, or what business model is going to succeed the old news dinosaurs
My prediction, which I refuse to stand by :p , is that we will end up with a small number of subscriber based, expensive, high quality ‘newspapers’. Premium content. This is beginning to happen in the gaming world.
We’ll also end up with some key news aggregation sites on the net, that will filter the massive amount of blog, hot tips, rants etc into something that consumers can actually sort through over a coffee. They may actually print some of this stuff for subscribers. Once again, I see the gaming side of the net well ahead of the ‘game’ here.
We are also going to be in for a turbulent decade or so as people struggle to get their news ‘model’ functional and profitable… interesting times!
- Scoobs
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