My mother, who passed away 15 years ago, just missed the landmark television event, the O.J. Simpson trial. Clare was a news junkie. She had a passion for getting into people’s business and this extended from her neighbors to celebrities. When I heard the O.J. verdict, I was returning from lunch tuned to a radio […]

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Jeff Cole, Director of Annenberg’s Center for the Digital Future, predicts that print news will not survive another five years. In countries where internet penetration is more than 30%, he said, newspaper readership is markedly down. Cole cited remarkable statistics. The Los Angeles Times has lost more than a million subscribers in a few short […]

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