'monitor's' Web-first Shift

摘要

The Christian Science Monitor, which celebrated its 100th anniversary last year, published its last weekday issue on March 27. But unlike such newspapers as The Rocky Mountain News, which folded completely a few weeks earlier, the Monitor is pioneering a business model that may help professional news organizations remain viable. John Yemma, editor of the Monitor, explained the changes the title is making and the reasons behind them in his keynote at American Business Media's Digital Velocity event in New York last month. "We're going from a newspaper printed five days a week and a lightly updated Web site to a Web site with a constant stream of news over 24 hours, a daily news briefing [in PDF form] and a weekly print magazine," he said.