Okay, STOP! Check the stopwatch. How many years did that take?

Print is for expanding on Web articles.

For my money, the wave of the future in Asia is for newspapers to publish on the weekend, thereby becoming the rivals for weekly glossy news magazines like Time and Newsweek. There's really no need to publish news everyday in print, unless you have something regular, like a column, that people will turn to in order to read.

Of course, right now, it is not feasible for news-through-devices to be launched in some of Asia's cities, but I do think most people are watching their news on TV, listening to it on the radio (in China) and reading it on the Web: Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, etc.

In fact, my gut feeling tells me journalists will have to move further and further away from "daily" news and start writing very technical and niche articles about industries, neighborhoods, communities and ideas.

 

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