Romenesko Letters
"It isn’t a stretch to look 10 years down the road and see a day when the primary method of viewing news for most people will be through a feed delivered by someone like Google," writes
Phillip Day. "The role of newspapers will then be almost exclusively as content providers." Today, too many news websites are cutting costs on the content site to add video and other Google-like features, he says. "If I was making these decisions at a newspaper today, I’d forget about competing with Google and papers that give away content for free on the web and concentrate on making content that people will pay for."
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Palser: Why do so few students plan to be online journalists? (AJR)
