Newspapers' Future Lies in Arts and Crafts

Although print-media outlets have diversified into a variety of branded products in an effort to shore up revenue, the Boston Globe‘s Delia Cabe says that the newspaper business is missing out on one of its greatest assets; newsprint is a crucial element in artistic design, and print giants aren’t doing enough to leverage their product’s potential as a raw building material.

Cabe writes, cheekily:

Artists need newspapers. Plain and simple. I’ve seen the trend. Poke around any gallery, artists’ cooperative or ordinary store, and you will find a cottage industry — in one case, literally — of artists and crafty types who use newspapers in their work.

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