Taking stock of how newspaper editors see the future

The findings of the News Barometer survey of newspaper editors has been extensively covered, so I just wanted to pick up on a few of items from it. “35 percent believe print will reign supreme”. This is a spurious question. Editors should not worry which form of media will reign supreme, but rather which is the most suitable format to use for a story, considering the audience for that story.

The integrated newspaper

In the UK, one of the leading broadsheets, The Telegraph, has revealed its plans to bring together its editorial operations. As the veteran UK journalist Roy Greenslade wrote in his blog: “So the paper renowned for its conservative politics is about to take the most revolutionary step in its history, more sweeping than the initial introduction of computer technology, more radical than its creation of the first newspaper website (in