Is There Still Hope For Newspapers? David Simon Of The Wire Thinks So - A Photo Editor

Jonathan, sent me a link to David Simon’s blog awhile back and in the comments of the introduction he gets into a debate with someone about the future of newspapers. I know he’s right about the problem and solution, and despite the occasional idiotic move

via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2013/06/12/is-there-still-hope-for-newspapers-david-simon-of-the-wire-thinks-so/

The world has flipped and slowly, belatedly, the newspaper industry is realizing it. In fact, the reason the industry leaders failed to see it for too long was that they were wedded — as you are still wedded — to the model in which advertising with the god of revenue and circulation was the loss leader. But that isn’t true digitally.