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The Future Of Journalism
The Future Of Journalism
Could newspapers cease to exist? A report from 1981. My favorite quote: "We're not in it to make money.  We're probably not going to lose a lot, but we're not going to make much either."
How the Future of Online News Looked in 1981
How the Future of Online News Looked in 1981
opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com — A time capsule anticipates the future we're living in now.... (more) How the Future of Online News Looked in 1981
Hemingway: The Coming Journalism Bailout
article.nationalreview.com — T here has been much hair-pulling over the impending death of newspapers and other traditional forms of... media. A downbeat article in The Atlanti c by Michael Hirschorn, postulating that the New York Times could go out of business as early as this ... (more) Hemingway: The Coming Journalism Bailout
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Ben Smith's Blog — A 1981 San Francisco local TV report on newfangled "newspapers by computer." The anchor notes that it takes two hours, at $5 an hour, to receive the newspaper over a phone line, keeping it out of competition with cheap printed paper. (via Andrew Sullivan)

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