Rupert Murdoch sees the day when newsprint-based papers won’t exist and everything is electronic, just like Crikey.
Future of newspapers
Dear media commentators: newspapers don’t need your advice
Got a brilliant idea about how to save the newspaper industry? Keep it to yourself. Newspapers aren’t short on ideas, says Joshua-Michéle Ross — they’re grappling with much larger questions and structural problems.
Michael Moore: “Newspapers slit their own throats”
Film-maker Michael Moore has weighed-in on the death of the American daily newspaper industry: capitalism is the killer. Oh, and he’s just released a film about capitalism. Funny that. Still, a witty and worthwhile analysis.
The future of news: networked, non-profit… NPR 
Family feud: why the Post may outlive the Times
Both of America’s premier mastheads, the New York Times and Washington Post are suffering in the media downturn. But the Post has one advantage that may see it weather the storm better, says Michael Wolff: likeable owners.
How the free market can save the free press
In order for news organisations to survive, the US government must grant them exemption from antitrust and price-fixing laws so that they can essentially “collude for survival”, argues Tim Rutten.
Don’t buy in to newspapers’ good news
Newspaper stocks may have been rallying in recent months, but don’t get too excited: it’s mainly due to heavy, heavy cost-cutting and a downturn in the newsprint and ink industries. Newspapers are still far from out of the woods — even if the trees are currently a bit cheaper.
Fairfax’s strategic future: Crikey readers weigh in
We asked, and a handful of you cared enough to answer. Here are some Crikey reader’s thoughts on the strategic direction of Fairfax.
Death of newspapers: it’s the advertising, stupid
Newspapers aren’t dying because readers are no longer buying them. The main problem is that advertisers, whose ads have always paid the cost of journalism, are deserting newspapers.
Five more reasons newspapers are dying (and why no-one’s talking about them)
Another day, another “why newspapers are dying” op-ed — but here are some arguments you may not have heard before from former Salon and NPR writer Bill Wyman.
ABC: it’s your newspaper
Nothing covers complex news stories like the written word. Which is exactly why we need a publicly funded ABC newspaper, writes Jeff Sparrow. And it can hire all the sacked journos!
Spend $2million for 100,000 sales: an Age reader offer
The Age is desperate to shore up dropping sales figures and it’s taking desperate steps — giveaways and reader promotions — to try and halt the decline.
Video of the Day: Ricky Gervais: newspapers’ future? What a silly question
“Are you going to be unhappy when there’s no more perambulators to put your baby in?” We sense the comedian doesn’t understand just how serious this whole newspaper death thing is.
News Ltd and the cold shoulder of redundancy
The journalists’ union is taking a hard look at News Limited’s redundancies, writes Christopher Warren.
The internet isn’t killing newspapers, greedy journalists are
Online publications paying disproportionately high journalist salaries are the reason newspapers are dying off, says tech reporter Michael Hickens — and we’re not even worth it.
Newspapers haven’t actually charged for content in 180 years
History lesson: the retail price of a newspaper hasn’t reflected the total cost of assembling and producing it since around the 1830s, says NewsFuturist. Why expect the economics to apply any differently for online news?
Why journalists deserve low pay: interview with Robert Picard
Christian Science Monitor editor John Yemma chats to media consultant Robert Picard, who stirred up a bit of controversy with an op-ed in the paper last month entitled “Why journalists deserve low pay”.
David Simon: a blueprint for saving newspapers
TV producer and writer David Simon has a few humble suggestions for the publishers of The New York Times and The Washington Post to save them — and the rest of print media — from going under.
Melbourne CBD’s newspaper black hole
News junkies wanting to locate hard copies of rural and interstate newspapers in Melbourne’s CBD are on a fool’s errand. Andrew Crook knows, he embarked on a fruitless search through the city.
New York Times to seek sponsorship?
As Rupert Murdoch considers locking up content, The New York Times has begun considering foundation funding (a la National Public Radio) to help cover some of its news-gathering costs, says Bill Mitchell.
Dear John,
The trouble that newspapers now find themselves in is due entirely to a colossal failure of management and leadership over two decades, says former newspaper journo Alan Kohler.
Six pieces of News Ltd we’d like to see behind a paywall
News Ltd CEO John Hartigan is absolutely right: the more News Ltd content that is moved beyond a paywall, the better. Here are some articles we’d like to see there.
Don’t screw the internet to save newspapers
US Appeals Court judge Richard Posner recently floated the idea of banning online links to stop people stealing newspaper content for nothing. Hey, let’s also ban wheels in order to save the horse industry, snarks Hamilton Nolan.
Newspapers and bloggers: isn’t there room for everyone?
The failure to adapt a product to a market is bad business, but the petulant bitching and moaning from dinosaur media chiefs is just bad form, writes Scott Bridges
The real threat to newspapers: lifestyle
Lifestyle sections, or what News Ltd CEO John Hartigan discreetly referred to yesterday as “highly relevant and genuinely useful”, suck resources away from high-end journalism, says Trevor Cook.
