Brokaw envisions the Washington Post print paper to be dead in 10 years
Posted by Evan Fell on November 21, 2007 at 4:01 PM
Tom Brokaw, a popular TV journalist in the US, thinks that print newspapers will be dead in ten years. As an old media figure himself, this is not a good sign for the newspaper industry.
When Brokaw, the former NBC “Nightly News” anchor appeared to promote his new book at the Sixth & I Synagogue in Washington, D.C, he said he thought that a major newspaper would go completely digital within the next ten years.
“I was at The Washington Post earlier today,” Brokaw said. “And in the lobby they’ve got a wonderful graphic describing how the printing press works and where it is … 75,000 copies an hour it can turn out. Its last run is at 2:15 in the morning and [has] an automatic paper roll that comes when they run out of paper and the ink is recharge and I looked at all that and I thought – ‘Ten years from now, will it be here?’ I don’t know. Probably … if you would do a hardcore analysis – probably not. It’ll be probably digital 10 years from now.”
Brokaw went on to talk about how the younger generations rely only on digital to get their news and information and that is why he thinks the print version of the newspaper will be dead in ten years. However, he did say there would still always be a need for journalists to interpret information and present it in a way understandable and desirable to readers.
According to Editor & Publisher, daily circulation at The Washington Post was down 3.2 percent to 635,087 and Sunday was down 3.9 percent to 894,428 for the six-month period ending September 2007.
Source: Business and Media Institute through Ifra Executive News Source
“I was at The Washington Post earlier today,” Brokaw said. “And in the lobby they’ve got a wonderful graphic describing how the printing press works and where it is … 75,000 copies an hour it can turn out. Its last run is at 2:15 in the morning and [has] an automatic paper roll that comes when they run out of paper and the ink is recharge and I looked at all that and I thought – ‘Ten years from now, will it be here?’ I don’t know. Probably … if you would do a hardcore analysis – probably not. It’ll be probably digital 10 years from now.”
Brokaw went on to talk about how the younger generations rely only on digital to get their news and information and that is why he thinks the print version of the newspaper will be dead in ten years. However, he did say there would still always be a need for journalists to interpret information and present it in a way understandable and desirable to readers.
According to Editor & Publisher, daily circulation at The Washington Post was down 3.2 percent to 635,087 and Sunday was down 3.9 percent to 894,428 for the six-month period ending September 2007.
Source: Business and Media Institute through Ifra Executive News Source
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