How to save the news
June 8, 2010
Excellent article by James Fallows about how Google's involvment in the future of journalism.
“Nothing that I see suggests the ‘death of newspapers,’” [Google CEO] Eric Schmidt told me. The problem was the high cost and plummeting popularity of their print versions. “Today you have a subscription to a print newspaper,” he said. “In the future model, you’ll have subscriptions to information sources that will have advertisements embedded in them, like a newspaper. You’ll just leave out the print part. I am quite sure that this will happen.”