Monitor Shifts From Print To Web-Based Strategy
29/10/2008 05:17
The Christian Science
Monitor plans major changes in April 2009 that
are expected to make it the first newspaper
with a national audience to shift from a daily
print format to an online publication that is
updated continuously each
day.The changes at the Monitor will include enhancing the content on CSMonitor.com, starting weekly print and daily e-mail editions, and discontinuing the current daily print format.
This new, multiplatform strategy for the Monitor will "secure and enlarge the Monitor's role in its second century," said Mary Trammell, editor in chief of The Christian Science Publishing Society and a member of the Christian Science Board of Directors. Mrs. Trammell said that "journalism that seeks to bless humanity, not injure, and that shines light on the world's challenges in an effort to seek solutions, is at the center of Mary Baker Eddy's vision for the Monitor. The method of delivery and format are secondary" and need to be adjusted, given Mrs. Eddy's call to keep the Monitor "abreast of the times."
No more newsprint here.
SINC SAYS:
I’ve been predicting the death of the printed newspaper for years now. It won’t be long until that comes true. Smart newspapers have already began full online editions. Those who have yet to follow suit, are behind the times.
