Clay Shirky thinks about newspapers
March 15th, 2009
Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody, provides good background on why newspapers are in trouble and what the future holds:
“You’re gonna miss us when we’re gone!” has never been much of a business model. So who covers all that news if some significant fraction of the currently employed newspaper people lose their jobs?
I don’t know. Nobody knows. We’re collectively living through 1500, when it’s easier to see what’s broken than what will replace it.
Full story with link to background column here.