The future of newsprint
The current state of the economy has definitely done a number on traditional news outlets. Just recently, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer announced it is shutting down its presses and it is just publishing online only.
Some are pointing to this as the beginning of the end for the newspaper. Others are saying that newspapers are just morphing into a new and more accessible medium — the web.
That said, the true value of a newspaper is not the paper it is printed on, but the credibility and value of news it reports. Newspapers represent the trusted gatekeepers of current events. They filter out what is not credible and not worthy for our consumption, which in turn makes us more knowledgeable.
Newsprint might die, but people will always seek out the credibility of the paper or publication — no matter what media it is on.
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