Monday 16 March 2009

Thinking the unthinkable about newspapers

A great article by the ever controversial Clay Shirky.

This blog posting suggests that while there is still a need for journalism, the newspaper model itself is utterly dead in the water. 

In a world where information is free to send, receive and produce, the old school ways of selling information can no longer survive.

Read more here.

1 comment:

Don said...

That is a long but interesting article. Some teachers and I were talking at lunch today about the demise of newspapers and the changes in access to news. A timely post.