Comments on: What’s the Future of Newspapers? http://donklephant.com/2008/12/09/whats-the-future-of-newspapers/ Big Teeth. Huge Ass. Surprisingly Reasonable. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:39:23 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: kasey http://donklephant.com/2008/12/09/whats-the-future-of-newspapers/comment-page-1/#comment-429016 kasey Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:36:02 +0000 http://donklephant.com/?p=11845#comment-429016 Having been a student of the Missouri Method, I believe there absolutely is no substitute for solid journalism principles and practices. Because of that, there will always be a gold standard somewhere out there in medialand. Eventually it could be online (or maybe it already does), because you're right, it probably won't live in newspaper pages much longer, if it even does anymore anyway. It may seem like nitwits both consume and produce the "news" nowadays, but when something really important or life-shattering happens, the gold standard outshines them all every time. There's just no replacing that. As for print journalism, I think there will be an even stronger shift toward niche publications (magazines) where solid reporting is still appreciated, required and well read, and there may be a reawakening of long-form writing to counterbalance the snippets we digest elsewhere. Newspapers that remain in circulation will undoubtedly undergo major facelifts, such as scaling back to only one section, portable tabloid sizes, weekly formats, moving to six days (removing saturday), all of which is to cut costs and compete in our 3-second sound bite society. Having been a student of the Missouri Method, I believe there absolutely is no substitute for solid journalism principles and practices. Because of that, there will always be a gold standard somewhere out there in medialand. Eventually it could be online (or maybe it already does), because you’re right, it probably won’t live in newspaper pages much longer, if it even does anymore anyway. It may seem like nitwits both consume and produce the “news” nowadays, but when something really important or life-shattering happens, the gold standard outshines them all every time. There’s just no replacing that.

As for print journalism, I think there will be an even stronger shift toward niche publications (magazines) where solid reporting is still appreciated, required and well read, and there may be a reawakening of long-form writing to counterbalance the snippets we digest elsewhere. Newspapers that remain in circulation will undoubtedly undergo major facelifts, such as scaling back to only one section, portable tabloid sizes, weekly formats, moving to six days (removing saturday), all of which is to cut costs and compete in our 3-second sound bite society.

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