Speaking at the opening Digital Leadership Dialogue event at POLIS on Tuesday, Emily Bell predicted an apocalyptic period for mainstream traditional media.
Read the full report at journalism.co.uk. Not a positive start to the week.
Change brings opportunities for all of us. We have been working on plans for a shop-fit for our Frankston newsagency. We are embracing change by developing a model which allows every fixture to be movable except for the counter. Magazine fixtures, card fixtures and stationery fixtures will not be built in to outlast armageddon as is often the case.
While I am not expecting an apocalyptic period, significant change has been evident in the newsagency channnel since 1999. Disruption of mainstream media by technology and the current economic situation are to fans pushing change forward. Hence the need for a flexible shop-fit.
You’re dead right on the fixtures. Whilst my shop is only five years old and has a very nice looking shopfit, I still can’t move things around, creating displays etc. Unfortunatly it’s a cause of storeblindness.
I have my best real estate in the store taken up by newspapers which make a paltry profit. This annoys me.
I’m looking forward to see what you come up with, I’m sure it will be the benchmark for the furture.