Cost-cutting newspapers are losing many of their youngest reporters, editors and photographers at the same time publishers are trying to break some of their old habits and learn new tricks on the Internet.
This is not a good trend. Younger generations will always have more technical aptitude than older generations as a whole. That’s because they will have grown up inculcated with technology and taken if for granted, whereas older generations are adding yet another layer of knowledge into an already crammed base.
There will of course be some exceptions, but what this story is really about is not modern online-only digital newsrooms. It’s about traditional newsrooms.
The era of the pure-play online newsroom is emerging. Will traditional media companies be able to compete? Time will tell.
