The rise of new media and the ubiquity of web news portals and blogs have created limitless opportunities to report and gather information. The traditional news industry has had difficulty adapting and developing business models that permit traditional print news vehicles to compete.
Newspapers are failing left and right.
Today comes news that the venerable Seattle Post-Intelligencer has printed its last "hard copy" edition.
The tactile pleasure of holding and reading a newspaper is apparently not pleasure enough to generate advertising and circulation revenue sufficient to operate.
As exciting, timely and fresh as real-time news and opinion may be, the loss of traditional newspapers is difficult to accept. Let's hope that new business models can be developed that permit both print and new media news sources to flourish.
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- Atlantica Monitor seeks to review and comment on global business, political and social trends that impact business decisions and opportunities. Scanning news sources and commentary in key markets, we offer observations, and welcome dialogue and discussion, on issues of importance here and abroad.
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- Perry B. Newman is founder and director of Atlantica Group, an international business consulting firm based in Portland, Maine. A columnist, consultant and resource to business and government in North America, Israel and Europe, Newman's full bio can be accessed here.
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March 17, 2009
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