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As newspaper publishers struggle with the problem of making new media journalism pay, and daily news habits migrate online, it’s easy to think that the newspaper itself is about to disappear.
Just as radio disappeared when TV was invented. Or the horse completely died out after the invention of the car. Or why vinyl is something you only now see in museums. Read the rest of this entry »
The aforementioned new issue of McSweeney’s is beginning to cause a stir in the American newspaper world, as the advance spreads seem to be getting people interested anew in the possibilities of newsprint.
“Ah,” say the skeptics. “Easy for them – they’ve had months to work on it. You couldn’t do that kind of thing with a daily.” Except you can. I spent much of last week in the company of the team from i, a tabloid-sized Portuguese daily newspaper with a design team of five (including two infographers), and this is some of their work:
In what is surely little more than a curious coincidence, the latest issue of McSweeney’s magazine is laid out as a multi-supplement, fictional broadsheet newspaper called the San Francisco Panorama (which looks awesome), while the actual San Francisco Chronicle is about to become some kind of hybrid glossy newspaper. Next up: the paper Kindle, and the internet in handy book form. Oh.
(via A Photo Editor)
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