The Death Rattle For Non-Innovators: Asking 'Who Else Is Doing I...

Courtesy Techdirt  Thu, 11/12/2009 - 00:01

Taking risks can be scary, because they can fail. But if no one takes risks, then it's pretty hard to innovate -- and that's the situation many newspapers find themselves in. Jay Rosen points us to Alan Mutter's musings on how so many innovative ideas for newspapers have been killed off by the simple phrase "who else is doing it?" Very few people want to be the first.

That's why so many newspaper execs have talked about putting...

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