New York Times Combines Print and Online Newsrooms

A few weeks ago the Wall Street Journal reported that the New York Times plans to combine their print and online newsrooms. All of this is further confirmation that the line between print and online is slowly but surely disappearing. When I first started in this business, getting a hit in an online publication was considered a tier 2 or 3 hit and now we're talking tier 1 all the way. Trends are showing that more people prefer to get their news online than in print. For those of us in the communications field, this may make our job harder as print publications and newspapers will begin to disappear as everyone starts reading their news only online. All of this translates to less journalists to pitch as the number of journalists will surely be consolidated to make up for the transfer of readership and the loss of demand away from print.

I know i haven't written much this summer. Well this is why, I've been riding ancient Roman chariots in Caesaria. I'm standing in a sports arena dating back to 6 A.D. It's located in what used to be a small port city on the Mediterranean coast. The city was rebuilt by King Herod, who renamed it Caesarea in honor of the Roman emperor.