“The newspaper business has changed irrevocably,” laments Rem Rieder in the American Journalism Review. “The combination of the Internet (and the ensuing change in the
habits of news consumers) and Wall Street profit pressures means that there's no going back. Life simply will be different.” While Rieder says that the medium will endure at least in the
near-term, its role will change dramatically. Newspapers will “have to be open to new ideas and to reaching consumers in unconventional ways. They'll be the ‘engine’ that drives a
panoply of products including an array of Web sites, podcasts, vodcasts, niche publications and who knows what else.”
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