Maybe the Internet Isn’t Killing Newspapers After All

By: Whet Moser | Chicago Magazine

Last week the Online News Association came to Chicago, and there was some chatter about the continued decline of print as it relates to the internet, generally identified as the culprit in the industry’s downward spiral.

Something or the other got me thinking back to reading Matthew Gentzkow, the University of Chicago economist whom I interviewed after he won the Clark medal not long ago. Much of Gentzkow’s work is on the economics and ideology of media, and part of the reason he won the Clark medal is his use of newly available data and technology to interrogate the long history of the media, especially newspapers.