More than two years ago, I gave a speech at Georgetown and asked the assembled group of 100+ students some questions:
Who reads a newspaper every morning in its physical form? Who reads a news magazine every week or subscribes to a news magazine? Who wants to go to work for a newspaper company or magazine publisher upon graduation? Not a single hand went up. I said "canary in the coal mine". This doesn’t auger well. Check out this story. See the quotes within. It is scary times for print-based publications and their true "anemic" future growth prospects. I have yet to see a Newsweek widget on a single Facebook page or a Newsweek social app on a single blog or syndicated website. Have you?
