http://mturro.com/2007/04/27/newspaper/ print | culture | digital | media Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:11:03 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://mturro.com/2007/04/27/newspaper/comment-page-1/#comment-61 Daily papers, daily magazines, daily print, just can’t last Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:59:47 +0000 http://mturro.com/?p=111#comment-61 [...] This seems off to me. Ultimately the problems newspapers face aren’t really problems of style or design… they are fundamental problems that stem from the fact that developing stories (the guts of a daily paper) thrive in a more flexible distribution model… a digital model. The whole notion of a printed daily is becoming increasingly absurd and it doesn’t really matter whether what’s printed looks like a newspaper or a magazine. The nature of daily content requires that it be distributed in a digital format… printing it is much the same as choking it (a point that drives this post on my other, more creatively driven blog, paragraph). [...] [...] This seems off to me. Ultimately the problems newspapers face aren’t really problems of style or design… they are fundamental problems that stem from the fact that developing stories (the guts of a daily paper) thrive in a more flexible distribution model… a digital model. The whole notion of a printed daily is becoming increasingly absurd and it doesn’t really matter whether what’s printed looks like a newspaper or a magazine. The nature of daily content requires that it be distributed in a digital format… printing it is much the same as choking it (a point that drives this post on my other, more creatively driven blog, paragraph). [...]

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