Print proves its value with historic election

Based on what I’ve witnessed, read (here’s an AP story), and heard (nice piece on NPR this morning), Nov. 5 poses a strong argument for why we need to hang on to our print products in the news business. If you waited more than a couple of hours the morning after this historic election, you were hard pressed to find a copy of your local newspaper with photos and headlines declaring Barack Obama the new leader of the free world. Is anyone ready to to take a screen shot of the NY Times, Chicago Tribune or any other newspaper yesterday and frame that for posterity? I think not. Print is part of our history. We can’t get away from that. Personally, I hope it is a long time before we ever do.

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