Media Watch: It's the end of an era, but can a digital Deseret News fulfill a much bigger vision?
A new era begins in just a few days for Salt Lake City’s two daily newspapers. The Deseret News and Salt Lake Tribune will both move mostly to digital formats at the first of the year, but each will retain a weekend printed paper. Given the ubiquity and dominance of digital information in the last several years, printed newspapers, once the king of information dissemination, were already on a long death spiral. For me, at least, it’s sad to see the demise of the printed word. But digital publication and distribution offer myriad new opportunities. To outside observers, it might seem th...
Source: utahpolicy.com