PC WORLD, 10 Mar 2009: When the Christian Science Monitor went online-only in October 2008, it signaled a changing of the guard. The 100-year-old newspaper acknowledged that people are more apt to log on to their computers than they are to pay for a print subscription. The move was clever and fast, and it exuded a glimmer of what was to come.
There's no question about journalism's ability to survive. It will make it. Whether it be by monstrous organizations or homemade blogs, the news will always be found. What most people have to get used to, now that e-Ink and URLs are here to stay, is the medium. While it's sad to see the old bastions go -- especially due to the massive staff cuts such changes imply -- now is a unique epoch in which we can witness the future of how events are reported.
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