Should Yahoo Go Into Print Journalism?
Posted by Melanie Phung on Wednesday, March 22, 2006 at 1:12 am
Technology journalist Dan Gillmor is prodding Yahoo to buy the San Jose Mercury News, one of the now-defunct Knight Ridder’s chain of newspapers.
Gillmor says the move could “turn the Bay Area — far and away the best place for this in America — into a living laboratory of tomorrow’s journalism.”
Yahoo could become the international test bed for the transition we all know is coming in print journalism. (One place it could start is fulfilling the promise of the under-utilized SiliconValley.com asset that Knight Ridder has failed to nurture.) Again, the shift to online is clearly happening even though papers have some future ahead of them. Yahoo, better than most — if it cared — could help make that transition the kind that honors the reasons we all should care so much about the future of quality journalism. If Silicon Valley and environs aren’t the best place in America to start, what is?
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