NewspaperShift

Kicking Ink: The Struggles of a Print Newspaper Unsubscriber

by Mark Glaser

I knew the day was coming, but it was still a shock when the day came. Groggy-eyed in the early morning light, I slowly went down the four flights of stairs in the front of my building and looked down. Nothing. For 18 generally uninterrupted years, I had the San Francisco Chronicle delivered to me, except when neighbors stole...

• May 19, 2009
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NewspaperShift

The Fallacy of the 'Print Is Dead' Meme

by Michael Josefowicz

Common sense tells us that print is not going away. If print is no longer an important part of your life, that is undeniable. But to extrapolate from personal experience to a statement about what is going to happen in the world doesn't work. But that's exactly what many of the people foretelling the death of print are doing. That's...

• April 27, 2009
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