The point is that it will happen some time.
Therefore, in this period of transition from print to screen, it is obviously of the utmost importance – if one wants to maintain the kind of journalism that, say, The Times, The Guardian or The Independent, feel is appropriate – that one builds the next platform as skilfully as possible, firstly to safeguard the journalism and, secondly, to provide income to fund that journalism.
In short, flogger, that’s my reasoning.
More or less what John Huey, editor in chief of Time Inc., wrote today in his own memo to employees to explain the last cuts in the magazine group.
Made, he says, to help the company “move quickly into a future of flexible, multiplatform content.”
Though they will alter “much of what we do and how we do it,” Mr. Huey wrote, the cuts do not mean that the company will sacrifice its journalistic integrity “or that we are getting out of the print business.”
Roy Greenslade got today in his blog a good question:
Why, Roy, do you feel the internet is the answer to all the problems of the press?