I’d imagine they’ll be forced to move away from a daily and more into the journalistic magazine role. When news is free online, and 62% of young people check it daily, newspapers lose their relevance. To survive, I think they’ll focus of quality writing and pieces that take less staff, but more time and higher quality writers. When news is free via social media or news websites, newspapers need to offer something special if they are going to charge money. They should hire the best writers, pay them well, and have them write deeply relevant investigative pieces and features.
After reading this question to my younger brother, we had a long debate in which I was swayed to the ability to control space and time. Freeze it, move through it, and never make the same mistake twice—or once! It sure would make a travel writer’s job a lot more interesting.
Before leaving on my summer-long road trip, I took a list of suggested books from my professors along with me. I finished Island in the Stream, by Ernest Hemingway not long ago, and am fighting my way through The Brothers Karamazov lately. I’m halfway through and I only found the plot-line a few pages ago.
