New York Times Will Abandon Print for the Web

Posted on February 16, 2007
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Arthur Sulzberger, owner, chairman and publisher of the New York Times, in an interview at Davos, revealed his positioning for the future. He said, “I really don’t know whether we’ll be printing the Times in five years, and you know what? I don’t care either.”

“The Internet is a wonderful place to be, and we’re leading there,” he added.

The Times has doubled its online readership to 1.5 million a day to go along with its 1.1 million subscribers for the print edition. And through being on the Web it’s enlarged its demographic to include slightly younger people also.

The full interview is here:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/822775.html

For fun you might also like to look at the EPIC video if you’ve never seen it - it prophesied that the NYT would cease publication in 2014. It’s a futuristic projection from real events up to about 2005 (the 2006 Google Grid event didn’t happen)

Futurism scenarios always have clean lines and definitive markers, whereas what’s happening today on the Web seems more chaotic, unplanned, and rough-edged. But in reality it’s probably leaping forward even faster than the EPIC timeline:
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/epic

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