Print Is Dead! Long Live Print!




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Summary: Printed newspapers have long been losing ground to new technologies, from the radio to the Internet. The good news, says journalism professor Iris Chyi, is that loyal subscribers have proven willing to pay more for less, as newsrooms shrink. This "death spiral" continues when resources go to building an online presence for non-paying readers. Nieman Lab director Joshua Benton joins in to discuss and disagree about what the numbers tell us about newspapers' past, and to pitch a future for print.