The Last issue of the New York Times

A good piece on Editors Weblog reviewing a book written by Italian journalist Vittorio Sabadin entitled "the last issue of the New York Times".

The book looks at the challenges facing newspapers,a subject that attracts much attention.

Sabadin in particular says that

The newspapers that will last the longest will be quality ones. They will be free on weekdays and will double today’s cost on weekends. They will contain less pages and concentrate on analysis. Their journalists will be investigative reporters, who will get out of the “paddocks of press conferences, where everybody gets the same news delivered in the same way”.

But in the end he thinks that the printed newspaper will disappear just as the LP has and the CD will.