Yeah, Print is either dying or evolving. It's either being beaten, slashed, treated with ill respect, or any other number of verbs. One thing is for sure, and has been for a long while, print is changing and this change, well, it will likely effect you. Take this memo for example, that was leaked, as memo's often are, this morning from the Oregonian. It's interesting and valuable to see how a news entity is approaching this change, from the inside.
"We will not abandon our foundation of beat reporting," the memo says, "but beats will be redefined along areas of expertise of most interest to our readers. Some beats will be eliminated because with fewer people we cannot cover everything that we have in the past."
And the bulletpoints of how these changes will happen.
"Our focus in print:
- Reveal how power is used, decisions are made and the impact on citizens.
- Explain how all manner of things really work.
- Question and explore relevant issues in depth, and explain their substance and context.
- Introduce people to others worth knowing and to new ideas and innovations.
- Tell compelling stories of community.
Our focus online:
- Break news.
- Encourage, engage and collaborate with communities of interest (both geographic and subject).
- Serve as the center and catalyst for community conversations (both geographic and subject)
- Aggregate information in broad swaths across topics and provide information on topics of greatest interest/utility
- Tell stories with tools unavailable for print."
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