Saturday, June 25, 2005
Days are numbered
Dead tree editions of news have a tough road ahead of them in the brave new digital world.
What looms now “is different from all other threats,” says Lauren Rich Fine (no relation), a Merrill Lynch & Co. (MER ) analyst who has covered the industry since the 1980s. Consumers are shifting decisively to online information, says Fine, especially the young, and are no longer yoked to the local newspaper.






