28 agosto 2008

I have never seen so many senior newspaper executives so depressed and frightened for their future


Turn and Face the Change -- With Newspaper Industry in Crisis, 'Everything's on the Table': Faced with an unprecedented crisis that combines cyclical turbulence with metastasizing digital technology that steals away revenue and readers at an alarming and seemingly accelerating rate (while offering newspapers only stingy payoffs), publishers and editors everywhere have thrown away their rule books — and, to find their way in this new and alien environment, are ready to implement previously unthinkable changes.

Or are they?