The Guardian, a prominent paper based out of London, announced that they will be making the switch to a prominently online publication. Owned by The Scott Trust, a charitable organization which believes in keeping the paper completely independent from outside financial influence, –The Guardian has a daily circulation as reported in 2005 of over 300,000 copies in the UK which is on the lower readership bracket compared to the other dailies such as The Daily Telegraph which reports its readership at over 900,000.
Hopefully this move by Guardian chiefs and editors to convert to a wholly online publication will boost readership for the historical paper. Who knows, maybe pixelized news will convert some non-Guardian readers to pick up the "paper" news to compare with what they see on their screens. Jeff Jarvis of Buzzmachine puts the whole matter into a more detailed construct as he was present when the announcement was made. Check out his post, ‘The web is preeminent’.
There are bound to be more advents of paper to pixel conversions in our future. Let’s just wait and see.
This looks like the unfortunate future of
many–or all, newspapers.
The internet is such a great tool in some ways, but a murderer to an old-fashion newspaper-man like myself.
Nice post.
-JAY MUNDY