A May 30 report, headed “Murdoch: Future of Newspapers is Digital”, reports:
News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch said on Thursday that the future of newspapers is digital, but it may be 10 to 15 years before readers go fully electronic.
Murdoch, in an interview with the News Corp.-owned Fox Business Network, also said that newspapers, faced with eroding print advertising revenue and circulation, are going to have to start charging readers on the Web…
“‘Instead of an analog paper printed on paper you may get it on a panel which would be mobile, which will receive the whole newspaper over the air, (and) be updated every hour or two,’ he said.”
WATCHDOG:
This is what NewsLanc has been saying and the sooner the Lancaster Newspapers begin moving in this direction, they better off it and the community will be.
The public needs daily local newspapers. They must be paid for somehow. Perhaps when money is coming from web subscriptions rather than from advertising, they will even return to investigating.
