Print is Dead! Long Live Print?

newspapersIt?s been said before, but it needs saying again (and again and again): PRINT IS DEAD. Across the publishing industry, year-over-year declines in revenue, subscriptions and circulation, are well documented. Yes, there have been a few quarters of blood stanching flatness (yay!), but ? you heard it here first (or few weeks ago from The Annenberg School, or over the summer from Clay Shirky) ? print periodicals are going to go away ? forced out of this world by the march of technology and changing tastes, and replaced by new powerhouse brands ? TMZ, Buzzfeed and HuffPo to name a few ? which are poised to own the future, because they know how to adapt to (and even anticipate!) evolving user behavior. As John Paton, CEO of one of the largest newspaper companies in the U.S., put it recently "'You?re gonna miss us when we?re gone? is not much of a business model.?

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