On Sun, 29 Mar 2009, Tim Dobson wrote:
I suspect that specialist areas of journalism will remain - sailing magazines for instance won't stop employing people to write about new yachts and dinghies, but I suspect some of the more general publications will need to adapt their business model or suffer consequences...
I think that niche journalism is one of the first places to suffer. The most common blog type that I see (after the random daily diary) is the niche blog, with people writing about the small areas that they know a lot about - the barrier to entry has lowered and as such those who are experts in their field now no longer need to submit to the editorial process of the special interest magazines but can just publish their own material online whenever they want.
The more general print magazines should do a bit better, if anything, because they remove the effort of the individual having to look around and find 'high quality' pieces of writing from a variety of sources, doing that collation and selection for them.
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