"History is a wonderful thing, if only it was true"
-Tolstoy

Sunday, July 29, 2007

Hard News

Conversations years ago with my late friend Dave Webb about the future of the newspaper business.

Finally coming to pass
Fortune Magazine (some good stuff on struggle to survive)
From print to Web: The Washington Post goes digital - August 6, 2007:
"Can the Washington Post survive?
Newspapers are dying. At the Washington Post Co., CEO Donald Graham is banking on the Internet to save serious journalism. If he can't figure this out, nobody can. Fortune's Marc Gunther reports."

Warren Buffett (large shareholder and board member):
"The present model - meaning print - isn't going to work"

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