A NEW DAWN FOR PRINT JOURNALISTS

The Nation had a front page comment piece on Friday headlined 'Is a new dawn possible for print journalism?' It's worth a read. It asks many questions but leaves more unanswered.
"The only pending question is the financial viability of such a business model," the article says, discussing how mainstream media journalists are now able to create content easier themselves online. "This is the age of the independent publisher," declared a media watch blog, quoted in the story.
The story makes mention of 600+ fans of a new NationPhoto Facebook page. That's great - but where is the revenue coming from? Unless Nation, and not just them but any other publisher, get direct revenues as a result of allowing people to access their content for free online or on mobile devices then that content will eventually disappear. It has to. It's not financially sustainable.
It's good to see The Nation devoting space on its front page to issues like this, but how many people really understand or, more importantly, care?