Back to the newsprint future

By Joshua Benton @jbenton Oct. 16, 2008, 5:02 p.m.

I thought Japan was supposed to be the future, not the past: A survey says 90 percent of Japanese say newspapers will be an important news source in the future, and 76 percent say they use newspapers regularly to get news.

Joshua Benton is the senior writer and former director of Nieman Lab. You can reach him via email (joshua_benton@harvard.edu) or Twitter DM (@jbenton).

POSTED Oct. 16, 2008, 5:02 p.m.

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