Print versus online, the latest

A comment here today prompted me to check out some of the latest stories about the challenges of print versus online:

• MediaWeek has a story about changes at Newsweek.
• Bloomberg has a story about newspapers axing Monday editions due to falling ad revenue.
• The New York Times says that newspapers’ online revenue is stalling.
• BtoB reports about publishers opening retail businesses to promote their brands.
• Roy Greenslade writes at The Guardian about newspapers that may survive.
• The Editors Weblog reports that the editor of the Financial Times thinks that there has been a power shift from old media to new media.

This list is by no means complete, not even close. The stories listed above and others similar to them reflect the biggest challenge newsagents face, the challenge which many who claim to represent newsagents have ignored for too long.

I am not afraid of these challenges. No, they present a tremendous opportunity for us to reinvent ourselves – if we are game.