The Problem With Paper News - Chris Anderson

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/07/16/Chris_Anderson_on_FREE_The_Future_of_Radical_Price

Chris Anderson, WIRED editor and author of FREE, explains how some newspapers will survive in a world of free. "There's two problems with newspapers: the news and the paper," says Anderson.

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Chris Anderson is the Editor in Chief of WIRED magazine and author of The Long Tail and FREE: The Future of Radical Price. The Long Tail concept has found broad ground for application, research and emperimentation. Now, in FREE, he makes the compelling case that in many instances businesses can profit more from giving things away than they can by charging for them. - Los Angeles Public Library

Chris Anderson is editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine, which has won a National Magazine Award under his tenure. He coined the phrase "The Long Tail" in an acclaimed Wired article, which he expanded upon in the book The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More (2006). He currently lives in Berkeley, California with his wife and four young children. Before joining Wired in 2001, he worked at The Economist, where he launched their coverage of the Internet. He also has a degree in physics from George Washington University and did research at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He has also worked at the prestigious journals Nature and Science.

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[emperorzombie13]

IT IS NOT ABOUT NEWS!!! its about advertising dollars. ive had the mispleasure of working for a newspaper. they have no clue.

they make money at selling ads in the paper and the paper attracts eyeballs to those ads.

people get to choose what their eyes see online. the paper forces you to see their view via the reporter. thats the problem. they have to compete with customers that would rather view info that enforces their own reality perception than what the local business offers.

[1000101er]

Everywhere in the middle scale is somebody's local scale, so the locals can cover it. No problem.

[Anjimom]

Nope, now go bother someone else.

I'm entitled to my opinion.

[TruthJunior]

you need to smoke something and relax

[Anjimom]

He didn't hurt my feelings, he just sounded like a snob.

[TruthJunior]

i don't think he meant to hurt your feelings, he was trying to make a point....

[Anjimom]

He was a bit of a snob on that one. I live out of state but grew up around San Jose, read about it online.

Gee, a guy from Berkeley doesn't care about San Jose, imagine that.

[glenbruce]

whats the fuss? news has a cleaner, faster and more dynamic media now. if the current publications cant compete thats just progress; time to adjust or fold

[Steadno]

they kill trees