LA Times says web first

This strikes me as a significant shift in the future of print journalism:
"The Times Shifts Its Focus to the Web"

The LA Times announced its intention to combine operations of the newspaper and
its Internet site, making the web the primary news vehicle and putting print in
the second slot. This will require training reporters, editors, and
photographers to focus first on their stories and images as content for the web,
and secondarily as print material. 

Wow. Is this forecasting the end of print media as we know it?

 

[Note: Apparently this is a site that requires free registration]

I neither predict nor desire the demise of newsprint. I think the NY Times and
WSJ have a  revenue model that makes sense. The Denver Newspaper Agency does
not.

I would hate to see the LA Times get it wrong. The publication has a mixed
history.

LA Times is desperate so is the NY Times, both are losing subscribers by the
thousands even though you can get ther paper for 8 dollars a month including
weekends.

Both want to blame the interet for the loss of subscribers but it's not the
internet it's the reporting these two news papers offer. Not that the papers are
to liberal not what I mean.

People now a days want to be engaged by the article feel as if someones talking
to them. The LA times and the NY times don't believe in talking to you in their
articles, they talk at you, and this is why people are shying away from these
two paper. If that makes any sense.

MichaelHWG:


People now a days want to be engaged by the article feel [...]. If that makes
any sense.   



Now that you mention it, that makes all kinds of sense.

MichaelHWG:

People now a days want to be engaged by the article feel as if someones talking
to them. The LA times and the NY times don't believe in talking to you in their
articles, they talk at you, and this is why people are shying away from these
two paper. If that makes any sense.   


That's a really interesting observation! I'm going to pay more attention to that
now... :)