Dave Winer has been writing about the future of news for a while, it’s worth clicking through and following the links/comments. Jeff Jarvis (another smart guy) has a good response as well. I’m not going to add a ton, other than to note that I think:
1. All news media will be be inherently digital w/ print as an afterthought in the next five years. If you want a printed newspaper/magazine, you’ll pay extra for it.
a) maybe the NYT and WSJ will still be mostly printed.
2. There will be essentially no difference between newspapers/magazines/TV/radio. All will have words, video, audio, audience participation.
3. Nobody has figured out the business model yet.
What is true for the news media is equally true for other forms of media – the CD will essentially vanish in the next two years; textbooks are on the path of the dodo. James Gleick got me thinking about this again…