dead schmead

From the Washington Post:

“Print is dead,” Sports Illustrated President John Squires told a room full of newspaper and magazine circulation executives at a conference in Toronto in November. His advice? “Get over it,” meaning publishers should stop trying to save their ink-on-paper product and focus on electronic delivery of their journalism.

I used to think this would be the case too, in the mid- to late-90s, when the Web was first taking off. But what happened? I was living in New Hampshire at the time … and far from any newspapers going under, several new weekly papers sprung up (like this one, others started by this company, and a new Sunday paper by this paper I used to work for).

Since I’ve moved to New York City, three new papers here have started: the Sun, amNew York, Metro New York.

The Times has a great website, and yet there are plenty of people who are willing to pay $9.30 a week for their print product. (Even people with laptops and Wi-Fi!)

I just don’t see print going away anytime soon, frankly.