How is new media impacting old media? Phil writes on the media industry for The Chicago Tribune.  He says as a journalism student you undertake an exercise where you;re asked to write your own obituary - it helps students learn to write and teachers learn a little about you.  Today as a columnist writing on the media industry he feels he’s come full circle! 

Newspapers were developed because consumers couldn’t be everywhere and needed to keep up to date on the news.  But today consumers are everywhere - so major newspapers are like large department stores, when news consumers are heading more towards specific boutiques. 

This is similar to arguments at On Disruption.