New Media - You Decide How Important Blogs Are
The old stand-by, The Christian Science Monitor
, is going to once a week in print and daily on the web. It is the first nationally circulated newspaper to adopt this policy. Can others be far behind.
The Monitor is 100 years old and has been doing just fine, thank you, until this Web 2.0 revolution. While the print edition has seen it's circulation drop, the on-line version is attracting upwards of 1.5 million visitors per month! Convincing numbers? I think so.
Here's a quote from this column - "This is a period of extreme financial difficulty for all news organizations. New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr., for instance, was asked at a conference in California on Oct. 22 whether the Times would be a print product in 10 years. "The heart of the answer must be (that) we can't care," Sulzberger said. He added that he expects print to be around for a long time but "we must be where people want us for our information."
This might be a small blip on the radar screen of journalism today but watch the groundswell as others quickly follow suit.
New Media will not be denied!
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