I'll add a few points to the list I started yesterday. I'll start with an obvious one.
8.) It may not be on paper at all. It may be on some sort of portable device. Newspaper publishers have invested for years in flexible, e-paper displays that feel like newsprint but update like websites. None of the projects have come to fruition ... yet.
9.) Its readers may not be united by geography. They may be a community of interest or enthusiasm.
10.) It will shift and evolve rapidly, as its readers' needs shift and evolve.
This is the archived edition of a blog (first titled Copy Massage)
kept from Sept. 4, 2003, to June 4, 2007, by Clay Wirestone.
The original description: "Twentysomething editor / designer /
reviewer / blogger / cartoonist Clay McCuistion muses on copy,
editing and the changing media landscape."
Monday, June 4, 2007
Sunday, June 3, 2007
Newspaper of the Future
My predictions (wishes?), in list form.
1.) It will have fewer pages and be physically smaller (perhaps tabloid) in size.
2.) It will have longer articles that offer more in-depth reporting an analysis.
3.) It will be precisely targeted, either in terms of geographical area or interest.
4.) It will have a vivid voice, which will provoke reader reaction.
5.) It will be sleekly designed.
6.) It will have a web component that will complement, not duplicate its contents.
7.) It will either be free or more expensive than today's papers.
1.) It will have fewer pages and be physically smaller (perhaps tabloid) in size.
2.) It will have longer articles that offer more in-depth reporting an analysis.
3.) It will be precisely targeted, either in terms of geographical area or interest.
4.) It will have a vivid voice, which will provoke reader reaction.
5.) It will be sleekly designed.
6.) It will have a web component that will complement, not duplicate its contents.
7.) It will either be free or more expensive than today's papers.
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