Tech Magazine discontinues print distribution
InfoWorld, a tech magazine that provides specialized IT coverage for company executives, ceases printing its weekly publication, opting instead to focus on events business and online coverage on InfoWorld.com.
“In the past decade, magazines and newspapers with both print and online components clung to processes that were designed around the rigid requirements of print publication, rather than flexible ‘always on’ nature of the Internet,” said Jay Rosen, a journalism professor at New York University and creator of NewAssignment.net.
Given the expensive proposition of having to maintain parallel print and online operations that serve different needs and the continued high cost of print publication, countless magazines and newspapers have been forced to consider abandoning print altogether.
“From the very first, journalism has been about communicating ideas across big territories. Technology — whether it be Roman roads or the global Internet — has always been part and parcel of the profession. That means when technology changes, journalism has always been forced to change, too.”
“Journalism is an old practice that keeps getting rebuilt because the technology for doing it keeps changing,” Rosen said.
The full story: “InfoWorld folds print after 29 years”