How newspaper publishers are avoiding that cliff fall moment

Ingenuity or ruthlessness? Take your choice... but the result is still the sameNewspaper commentators who have been charting the demise of newsprint for the past decade or so have tended to predict that there will be a transformative moment when newspapers go over a cliff.We know it won’t be like that, of course. To misquote Yeats, death comes dropping slow. All print advertising will not suddenly vanish and while it exists publishers will grab it. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

[ The Guardian | 2015-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ BBC World | 2013-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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