In his Reflections of a Newsosaur blog, industry veteran Alan Mutter identifies the newspaper's epitaph: "Who else is doing it?"
By that he argues that newspaper publishers haven't been aggressive or innovative in the digital sphere. They've awaited others and avoided going first. Which Mutter points out is the exact opposite of what businesses typically do.
"The inability to think outside the box helped put the newspaper business into a crisis it may not be able to survive," Mutter writes.
By that he argues that newspaper publishers haven't been aggressive or innovative in the digital sphere. They've awaited others and avoided going first. Which Mutter points out is the exact opposite of what businesses typically do.
"The inability to think outside the box helped put the newspaper business into a crisis it may not be able to survive," Mutter writes.
