The Pessimist

Scott Bosley, Executive Director of the American Society of Newspaper Editors
“The word newspaper is going to disappear. We'll talk about ‘news' rather than ‘newspapers' because there are going to be so many other ways that people get their news.”

The Optimists

John Kimball, Chief Marketing Officer for the Newspaper Association of America:
“This is still an extremely healthy business, not a business facing imminent doom.”

Bob Mong, Editor of the Dallas Morning News:
“Circulation isn't as great, but the combined audiences we are creating and keeping are better than they were. It's a really hard time for newspapers.”

The Pragmatists

Jeffrey Cole, Director of the Center for the Digital Future at the University of Southern California
“One way things may change, and no newspaper is ready to do this yet, is for papers to focus on the editions that are profitable, like the Friday and Sunday editions, and gradually phase out the Monday, Tuesday and Saturday papers that have less advertising and less content. Eventually, you're not going to see seven-days-a-week, 365-days-a-year papers."

Karen Dunlap, President of the Poynter Journalism Institute
“We will still have newspapers, but they'll probably be very different from what most of us think of now. They'll be physically smaller, as they move to what designer Mario Garcia calls the ‘compact:' a more tabloid-like, compact size. I disagree with the assumption that newspapers will die.”


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Source: Time