Looking past the rush into convergence: as technology drives big newsroom changes, what will happen to journalism?(Goodbye Gutenberg / Finding Our Footing)

During the next few years, the migration of news media to the Internet will start to become a background reality, a given. Paper publishing will still be around, as will over-the-air broadcasting. But both will be on their way to becoming niche artifacts. The technological superiority of online distribution for multimedia presentation and its vast potential for interactivity will make the Internet the principal venue for news and topical commentary.

So much for the objection that the concerns I'm about to raise are signs of resistance to technological advance. I've long argued ...

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