WHAT'S NEXT: INNOVATIONS IN NEWSPAPERS

The Kansas City Star has an excellent cover story presentation today.

According to the Associated Press:

Outfitting a soldier for battle costs a hundred times more now than it did in World War II.

It was $170 then, is about $17,500 now and could be an estimated $28,000 to $60,000 by the middle of the next decade…

…Over the years more spending has meant a better chance of survival.

Today, for every eight soldiers wounded, roughly one dies, compared with one for every 2.4 wounded in World War II and one for every three in Vietnam, the Army says.

UPDATE: Next Sunday, another U.S. newspaper front psge edityor became “inspired” and did more or less the same graphic presentation.

From Associated Press:

Next summer, paper airline tickets will go the way of vinyl records and rotary-dial phones: They won’t entirely disappear, but they’ll be hard to find.

IATA says paper tickets have fallen to less than 14 percent of the 400 million tickets it processes each year.

Paper tickets cost airlines $10 to $17, on average, compared with $1 or less for electronic tickets.

A fully electronic ticketing system will save the industry $3 billion a year, the IATA estimates.

The future is digital.

For travel.

For music.

For video.

For radio.

For news.

As Frank Zappa said:

“Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny”.

Tom Kent, AP deputy managing editor, explains the path to integration followed by the Associated Press in New York.

Thanks to Claude Erbsen.