The Washington Post's Joel Achenbach writes (another) obituary for newspapers

Miami News, Dec. 31, 1988.

The Washington Post's Joel Achenbach posted some thoughts today on his blog about that "17-year-old kid who sold a $30 million [news] app, called Summly, to Yahoo."


"The app," Achenbach writes, "boils down news stories to 400-character summaries."


Achenbach began his post by talking about why he prefers print over "news apps."





I like the bandwidth of print,