DECISION POINTS 2006 — FORBES TO TELL ALL

Forbes believes that newspapers are in a more challenging position (in comparison to magazines). The reason: people’s habits are migrating to an early morning review of Websites for the latest headlines that did not make the overnight editions. Newspapers will adjust to this by publishing more feature stories. Forbes used the example of The Wall Street Journal carrying a feature on Larry Summers’ departure from Harvard in addition to the headlines of his leaving. “News is more of a commodity and the role of print is going to be in value-added and not tied to fast-breaking news items.