February 14th, 2018 by WCBC Radio
In 2015, Jan Alderton, the recently retired managing editor of the Cumberland Times News was asked for his take on the growth of social media and its impact on newspapers. In a Time News interview Jan said that “the newspaper, the print edition, is not going to go away,” adding that “people still see the newspaper as the most credible source of information” as opposed to blogs and social media posts that are all over the Internet. That opinion is not widely held these days however. On Monday, New York Times CEO Mark Thompson, in an interview with CNBC, predicted a life span of perhaps another decade for newspaper printing presses…
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