Future of media & communications? Let's go!
Photo by Jeremy Galliani on Unsplash By Deron Snyder If printed newspapers have lost me as a customer, I fear that their prospects for developing future customers is between infinitesimal and nonexistent. I still love newspapers, which have been part of my life since elementary school, when I devoured the New York Daily News every day (as a sports fan, backwards) and later added the New York Post to my reading list. During visits back home after leaving the city to attend Howard University and start my journalism career, I’d stop at newsstands and purchase the aforementioned papers as well as USA Today, The New York Times and New York Newsday. Nothing quite compares to flipping through the pages of a “daily miracle,” the term some journalists use to describe a newspaper. I’m convinced that the physical act, the tactile experience, provides some sort of subconscious mental reward, like the release of endorphins during exercise. Sipping coffee, scanning the headline...