SigEx Ventures :The end of printed newspapers?by Ioana Madalina Tantareanu

The Boston Herald has antiquated production systems which produce paper inefficiently. This is why they're looking to outsource their printing operations. Some people just love this word..."outsourcing".I've heard it for so many times this year and last year that if I wasn't going to call 2007 "the iPhone year", I would definitely call it "the outsourcing year". What does it actually mean? "Outsourcing represents work done for a company by people other than the company's full-time employees."(according to www.investerwords.com). It's a new term, appeared in the '80s but I resent it because it's used for everything. The Boston Herald spoke to Dow Jones & Co.about outsourcing printing operations from Boston to a Dow Jones-owned press in Chicopee, MA, located in the western part of the state. Rupert Murdoch was the former of The Boston Herald and he sold it in 1994. He now owns News Corp and he talked about eliminating the printed edition of the Wall Street Journal- Dow Jones' main treasure. Perhaps it's about time we stop cutting trees like maniacs when we live in a digitalized world. Sure the smell of a paper is unpriceable but who buys papers any longer? Everybody is reading the press on the Internet, from work or from home. I won't comment on weather spending hours in front of a computer is a good thing or not but perhaps the Boston Herald should outsource somewhere else and never mind producing paper but invest in a good digital edition. I am sure this is the future, and we'll adapt rapidly to this sort of change.

by Ioana Madalina Tantareanu for SigEx Ventures (http://sigexventures.com)

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