Mindy McAdams in a really good piece reflects on the continued move to mobile and what this may been to journalism.
She asks
1.If someone has all the videos and quality radio news she could ever find time to listen to (or watch) right in her pocket, how can anything even remotely like the newspaper compete with that? The newspaper as it was, in the heyday of the 30 percent profit margins, had something for everyone. Now the Internet-enabled phone provides that
2.Will the traditional print news organization come up with programming, instead of random and disconnected stories? I don’t mean it has to be audio and video, but it would be something with an identity, like a show or a series
3.Breaking news is a commodity — you’ll never pay the bills with that. Hard news is not always breaking news, but how should it be packaged or bundled — to adapt to the phone? This would not be headlines. I’m thinking it might be driven by still photos, maybe sort of like the Daylife covers, but more photojournalistic.
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