The Independent’s move online is being praised as visionary. But its digital-native rivals beget evolved into something very different from newspapersThree things,only one week later, need saying approximately the Independent’s change of life. Let’s politely call them three dodgy propositions, and avoid mixing too much snake oil with the hogwash.
Thus far,the simple assumption of Indy transition has been eagerly grasped by a doleful chorus of pundits. Well, it’s obvious isnt it? Goodbye news in print, or ageing info pounded by heavy metal presses and carried in lorry-load bundles around the land; hello news on the screen in your back pocket. No diesel fumes or sweaty labour. Let the death rattles sound.
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Source: theguardian.com