Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Print newspapers RIP in 5 years?


Most U.S. print newspapers will be gone in five years, writes Jeffrey I. Cole, director of the Center for the Digital Future at the University of Southern California Annenberg School of Journalism. Coles writes that only four major daily newspapers with global reach will continue in print: New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal.

He says local weekly newspapers may survive, as well as the Sunday print editions of metropolitan newspapers that otherwise may exist only in online editions.

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