In Touching the Future, Roger Fidler provides a compelling, personal account of how Knight-Ridder, one of America's largest and most distinguished newspaper chains, helped to launch and lead the world-changing digital publishing revolution that ultimately contributed to its demise and the rapid decline of newspapers around the globe. Fidler’s 40-year odyssey at the forefront of the digital conversion of newspaper production and the development of online news media and mobile displays imbued him with a unique perspective on the first stages of the greatest transformation in human communication systems and society since the emergence of mechanized printing and print media.
Pages
315
Format
Kindle Edition
Release
September 11, 2019
Touching the Future: My Odyssey from Print to Online Publishing
In Touching the Future, Roger Fidler provides a compelling, personal account of how Knight-Ridder, one of America's largest and most distinguished newspaper chains, helped to launch and lead the world-changing digital publishing revolution that ultimately contributed to its demise and the rapid decline of newspapers around the globe. Fidler’s 40-year odyssey at the forefront of the digital conversion of newspaper production and the development of online news media and mobile displays imbued him with a unique perspective on the first stages of the greatest transformation in human communication systems and society since the emergence of mechanized printing and print media.