… and admittedly still learning: “I used to be the top editor of Time, Life and People magazines (back when print was king).” So says Jim Gaines in a brief piece in the Times. It’s a good story about and by a wizened media executive brought in to help manage young new media folks. Think Eric Schmidt in the publishing world.
“In the digital world … social networks are now bigger than most national populations, more people are consuming more news and information than ever before, and an archive of all the world’s knowledge is being built and streamed to your favorite device…. MEDIA will change as radically as technology allows, and right now the Internet is moving over the media landscape like a tsunami. But the job I learned to love when young was to tell stories, and the story has lost nothing in this transition. It is as elemental and as riveting as ever.
“Everybody’s worried about the device. Could Microsoft’s Courier be the answer, or the iTablet? Good question, but not the most important one. It’s less the device than the devices — the crafts and the art of storytelling — that need updating most urgently for the digital world.”
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