Sound the death knell
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The Chicago Tribune has stopped printing 'help wanted' ads in its weekday editions, preferring to publish them online. I can't help thinking increasing amounts of 'functional' content from newspapers will follow this direction - being higher profit margin and more accessible, searchable, useful, leading to the newspapers concentrating on the editorial and journalistic content. It has long been clear that newspapers are going to have to deliver more than just news reporting, but deeper insight and opinion as the strength of instantly updatable news websites increases, and people turn to digital sources in their thousands, and papers become for the more indepth comment and background to a story.
The Chicago Tribune has stopped printing 'help wanted' ads in its weekday editions, preferring to publish them online. I can't help thinking increasing amounts of 'functional' content from newspapers will follow this direction - being higher profit margin and more accessible, searchable, useful, leading to the newspapers concentrating on the editorial and journalistic content. It has long been clear that newspapers are going to have to deliver more than just news reporting, but deeper insight and opinion as the strength of instantly updatable news websites increases, and people turn to digital sources in their thousands, and papers become for the more indepth comment and background to a story.
