“A New Future for the News” by Michael Massing in the September 24 edition opens “The American news business today finds itself trapped in a grim paradox. Financially, its prospects have never seemed bleaker…Yet amid all the gloom, statistics from the Internet suggest that interest in news has rarely been greater.” Furthermore, “…it was fueled in particular by young people.”
WATCHDOG: This is a rather comprehensive introduction to at least a dozen possible directions for future news coverage, from ways to prop up the print medium, to newspaper / web site hybrids, and to a great variety of approaches underway on the Internet. The article can be accessed at http://www.nybooks.com/articles/23050 .
