Rumors of the death of newspapers have been greatly exaggerated, if Herald Publisher Patrick J. Purcell and Editor in Chief Joe Sciacca have anything to say about it — and they certainly did yesterday at a panel discussion on how news organizations can survive in a tech-addicted world of information overload and short attention spans.
"The challenges facing newspapers are not being faced by newspapers alone," Sciacca told an audience at Boston law firm Mintz Levin, which hosted the panel. "We know CNN has lost half its audience in the past year. AM radio is going away. A quarter of teenagers, the only way they interact with the Web is on their smartphone. We know that people don't want to be lectured anymore by legacy media ... they want to interact. We need to look for a (business) model that adjusts to that."
Stephen Mindich, publisher and CEO of Phoenix Media, who had to close the Boston Phoenix this year, predicted more newspapers will fail due to financial problems. But Purcell said, "Somehow or other we have been able to stay profitable. All I keep saying is, 'Let's keep our heads above water and see what happens.'"
The panel discussion, which also featured former Miami Herald Executive Editor turned Boston University dean Thomas Fiedler, was moderated by Mintz lawyer Jeffrey Robbins.
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