What Comes After

Mindy McAdams has a great post here about the future of journalism. She basically says newspapers are dying, the old business model of news is broken, and if only the best minds in journalism would get together and stop debating this reality, they might come up with an online model that works.

My worry is that the best minds are leaving journalism—or at least striking out on their own, as this new Web site encourages—because their longtime employers showed them so little loyalty and regard and just messed things up generally in order to spit out unbelievable profits year after year. So my hunch is that whatever new model rises to the top won't come from one of the old giants. I don't know if newspapers will go away completely, but I do know a new business model for journalism will emerge. I just don't know where it will come from.