NYT 1995 Transcript On Making Money Online Shows It's Not Gotten Any Easier; Also, Sulzberger Hates 'Cats'
NiemanLab has dug up a 14-year-old transcript of a panel of a forum held at the Nieman Foundation: “Public Interest Journalism: Winner Or Loser In The On-Line Era?” Yes, back then they hyphenated it. See how far we’ve come? On the panel, called “The New Economics of Journalism,” Esther Dyson and Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. discussed how they planned to make money from their Web products.
The Lab notes that yes, some statements seem laughably outdated, but:
the transcript is also notable for how little distance some of these debates have traveled in the intervening years.
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