The Future Of The New York Times: Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. has his hands full: Weaker earnings. A changing media world. A scandal's aftermath. He also has an ambitious business plan [...]
"The Roman Empire that was mass media is breaking up, and we are entering an almost-feudal period where there will be many more centers of power and influence," says Orville Schell, dean of the University of California at Berkeley's journalism school. "It's a kind of disaggregation of the molecular structure of the media."
New York Times mulls charging Web readers: "We are reviewing the site to see whether or not there would be any areas where we should change the business model," said spokeswoman Catherine Mathis. "This is not new. We've been discussing this for some time."
