The news is dead - long live the news?
(World News UK)

In a media world where the Big Five digital players are calling the shots, Jim Chisholm sees hope emerging from a growing breed of `new newsers`. Image: The Economist front cover, 6 March 2003, Fair use. It´s 60 years since Francis Williams forebodingly noted in 1957 the closure `of at least 225 weeklies and 21 out of 41 regional morning dailies´ (1). Since then countless others from Bill Gates to The Economist have anticipated the newspaper´s extinction (2). There is nothing we newspaper folks report more enthusiastically than our own demise. As I´ve written before (3), the news is flourishing but just not as we knew it. Some harsh realities.... In Europe the average print newspaper has about...