D: All Things Digital Conferences
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight…it concentrates his mind wonderfully. Those fortnights are upon us, and I suspect that 2009 will be remembered as the year that newspapers, followed by magazines and other content creators, realized that further rounds of cost-cutting will not stave off the hangman.
— From a speech on saving print journalism delivered Feb. 4, 2009, at U.C. Riverside by Walter Isaacson, president and CEO, the Aspen Institute