In a piece by Jon Slattery about his mother and The Guardian's digital-first strategy, I noted this anecdote:
Talking to journalism students recently at the London College of Communication... I was struck how, for many of them, digital has a permanence that print doesn't.
One said of digital: 'It is an archive, whereas print is ephemeral.'
Isn't that an interesting conceptual turnaround? Many print veterans see it very differently, believing paper equals permanence. The revolution rolls on...
Source: The Media Briefing
