Charlie Rose Weighs in on the Future of Newspapers

By Kyle Austin

February 12th, 2009

The micropayment and future of newspapers debate continued on Charlie Rose last night. Mort Zuckerman, the billionaire owner of the New York Daily News and editor of the US News & World Report discussed the topic with Charlie, Walter Isaacson (still on the press trail) and Robert Thomson of the Wall Street Journal.

Interesting quote from Thomson:

“Dead trees are definitely not dead. There is no doubt that in the modern age of content relationships, there is an absolute intensity to the relationship between a reader and a newspaper. Given the Web surfing, ad skipping, channel changing consciousness that is out there; the idea of spending 30 minutes with any medium (The only multi-tasking you are doing is drinking a cup of coffee). That does make newspapers unique. If you talk with ad people they are starting to recognize it.”

He could have added, “again.” Interesting.

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