Representatives of Europe’s top business papers gathered on April 16 and 17 in Paris for one of their tri-annual meetings at which they discuss the latest innovations and the future of their industry. It has been about a year now, commented one editor, that the presentations at the seminar have focused on nothing but digital concerns. The Paris meeting was no different.
Arthur Sulzberger Jr., chairman and publisher of The New York Times, has cushioned some of the words quoted in last weeks Ha’aretz, after taking flack from analysts and his own workers. "We are continuing to invest in our newspapers, for we believe that they will be around for a very long time,” he said today in a speech to Times employees.
The New York Times Co.’s chairman
Arthur Sulzberger, in an
explosive interview with Ha’aretz, seemed to say that the NYT will charge for its Times Reader software, a mobile newspaper reader with alleged heightened convenience.
This isn’t news anymore: it’s an injunction. Newspapers must transition into the digital revolution, primarily through online, for their own sake. The New York Times Co.’s chairman, Arthur Sulzberger, reaffirmed the immediacy of this necessity: he doesn’t care about print anymore.
