Google as the new pressroom?

Frankly, I think that would make a great deal of sense. Heck, an online paper isn’t much more than a complicated Blogger.com. If Google can provide free hosting to the “citizen journalists” who are making life difficult for the newspapers, Google should be able to host the newspapers for free as well. The newspapers would certainly generate more revenue than cat pictures! The idea would be to have each “newsroom” focus on whatever it does best and then link them all together into a larger whole which is greater than the sum of the parts.

Bob Wyman, of Google, being questioned by Jeff Jarvis regarding the position newspapers should take towards their presence online. Lots of interesting comments from readers.

10:47 pm  •  11 July 2008