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He believed newspapers could save themselves from extinction—but only if they adapted early and intelligently to new technology.
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One former publisher told me recently that Barry Bingham Jr. "was the visionary among us. He said what we didn't want to hear and we ran from it."
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He believed that the future of news lay in allowing readers to decide what was most important to them, as with today's customizable home pages. To most editors, this was heresy. This frustrated him and he made little effort to hide it. "This business," he snapped to a reporter in 1983, "is like the last dinosaur in the swamp."
This link has been bookmarked by 1 people . It was first bookmarked on 31 Mar 2009, by Cynthia McCune.
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He believed newspapers could save themselves from extinction—but only if they adapted early and intelligently to new technology.
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One former publisher told me recently that Barry Bingham Jr. "was the visionary among us. He said what we didn't want to hear and we ran from it."
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