Where newspapers need to go?
January 4, 2011
A local newspaper in England is doing something innovative in a bid to handle the digital future.
I have got upset before about Murdoch‘s pay wall issue, but the more I read about the future of newspapers / print media the more I don’t see a revenue stream aside from a pay wall.
Altho the Rotherham Advertiser does appear to still be allowing access to some content on its regular website.
But what I really like is the app will allow you to see where the story happened using GPS – if you look at the story I have linked to there is a map showing exactly where it happened (which is genius and reflects on the web interaction with physical space I have covered before)
The Rotherham paper is apparently independent – ie not owned by a huge media group – but how long before other papers (belonging to the bigger groups) start doing this?
