Murdoch – newspapers have got 10, well maybe 20, years
Breaking news from the Age: Rupert Murdoch says newspapers will be all-digital within 10 years. Or 20, if you read The Australian’s version.
It would be nice to know which, wouldn’t it?
Breaking news from the Age: Rupert Murdoch says newspapers will be all-digital within 10 years. Or 20, if you read The Australian’s version.
It would be nice to know which, wouldn’t it?
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So the paperboy/girl will now have to throw USB drives instead of newspapers?
That’s because he said both. This extract from Fox Business:
“As newspapers attempt to stave off extinction, News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch, one of the world’s biggest newspaper proponents, predicted publications like his Wall Street Journal could eventually go paperless.
“I can see the day — and it may be 20 years away — where you don’t actually have paper and ink and printing presses,” Murdoch said Monday morning in an interview with FOX Business’s Neil Cavuto.
News Corp. is the parent of FOX Business, FOX News Channel and Journal publisher Dow Jones.
Murdoch predicted the digital age will continue to revamp news organizations, but he does not see newspapers disappearing altogether.
“People need it. It’s the source of our democracy that we have newspapers,” said Murdoch.
Murdoch said that “within 10 years I think nearly all newspapers will be delivered to you digitally either on your PC” or a device similar to Amazon.com’s Kindle e-reader.
“It’s going to be something that is quite mobile that you can take around with you. We are moving into a digital age and it’s going to change newspapers,” said Murdoch.
Well they better work out a way to make money from digital then. Not sure why you’d predict the death of a revenue generator when you can’t make money off the medium you believe will replace it.
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