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The Future is Now: Newspapers Are Overcoming Their Fears of Technology and Launching a Wide Array of Electronic Products

The newspaper of the future as the “Daily Me” – a totally personalized newspaper tailored directly to each reader’s taste. If you’re a Boston Red Sox fan working in a patent law firm, partial to quirky news stories but deeply interested in foreign affairs, your edition of the paper will reflect those preferences. My edition, emphasizing economic and political news, music, entertainment and arena football, may contain some of the same stories, but not all.

The Future is Now: Newspapers Are Overcoming Their Fears of Technology and Launching a Wide Array of Electronic Products

Whereas we all were going down separate streets – audio, video, online – now it’s all sort of coming together, and we need to sit down together to operate it properly.

The Future is Now: Newspapers Are Overcoming Their Fears of Technology and Launching a Wide Array of Electronic Products

The newspaper’s future is absolutely vital. The only newspaper companies that are going to get murdered on this are the ones that stand back.

The Future is Now: Newspapers Are Overcoming Their Fears of Technology and Launching a Wide Array of Electronic Products

It’s wonderful that we are able to supply our readers with sports scores on demand and stats going back to 1938. But the real reason we are protected by the First Amendment – and the Home Shopping Network isn’t – is that we have to do good. We shine light in dark places, find out things people don’t want us to find out. I would hate to see people get too seduced by the technology and forget that.

The Future is Now: Newspapers Are Overcoming Their Fears of Technology and Launching a Wide Array of Electronic Products

Interpreting the news and separating out the extraneous is pivotal to the profession. Therefore, dumping a load of facts into a bottomless database would do little to aid public discourse, inform the community or attract a new generation of readers.

The Future is Now: Newspapers Are Overcoming Their Fears of Technology and Launching a Wide Array of Electronic Products

Newspapers will become news companies, information companies. And one of the products they will offer is a paper product, as well as CD-ROM, news channels, online services, etc.

The Future is Now: Newspapers Are Overcoming Their Fears of Technology and Launching a Wide Array of Electronic Products

Watching and waiting may not be such a great idea for most newspapers … I think they’d wake up one morning and find out a substantial portion of their lunch had been eaten. It would be extremely foolish for people as an industry to not find ways to use this technology.

The Future is Now: Newspapers Are Overcoming Their Fears of Technology and Launching a Wide Array of Electronic Products

Newspapers will become news companies, information companies. And one of the products they will offer is a paper product, as well as CD-ROM, news channels, online services, etc.

The Future is Now: Newspapers Are Overcoming Their Fears of Technology and Launching a Wide Array of Electronic Products

We’re going to make some nice money on this. If the other companies find local news to be compelling they will find ways to get that information out there to our readers … We’re not going to wait until cable operators define the world of journalism.

The Future is Now: Newspapers Are Overcoming Their Fears of Technology and Launching a Wide Array of Electronic Products

The possibility of 500 channels in the home has shaken up the industry. We are at risk of being disenfranchised; they could take [all of the newspaper industry’s] advertising – and all we’d have left is an editorial product with no advertising to support it. So we’ve really got to insinuate ourselves in[to] these new worlds.

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