Is Print Media Doomed Worldwide or Just in the US?
Posted on | June 2, 2010 | No Comments
As I walked in the headquarters of the Jawa Pos
—the flagship newspaper of one of South East Asia’s largest print media empires—I was wondering just how screwed my profession is; globally I mean.
Is the death of print a world-wide certainty or merely an American reality? After all a lot of “old economy” businesses are thriving in emerging markets thanks to Greenfield advantages and rising middle class economics. Spoiler alert: I walked out a few hours later not hugely convinced print is the future but willing to believe that in some places the death-blow of digital might be limited to a mere-crippling. How’s that for bullish?
Language difference and a preponderance of statues aside, the Jawa Pos felt like any other newsroom of a large daily. It was almost… Read more at TechCrunch.com.
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