Scott Karp has an excellent post, Reinventing The News Business Requires A Little Imagination, in which he discusses the idea of people paying for newspaper classifieds as a means of supporting local journalism.
Karp’s article is an important contribution to the debate about the future of newspapers and even journalism as we know it. Even if it does not resonate with you today, print it for future reference.
We’re around two years behind the US on this issue of the future of newspapers – insulated in part by strong home delivery penetration. The US situation will hit here and when it does we will be ‘surprised’.