J. William Grimes - J. William Grimes is a widely known media professional who has been President/ CEO of four major media companies, including Univision Multimedia Inc, Zenith Media, and ESPN (1981–1988) where he was the recipient of the USA Today Sports Executive of the Year and the Gallagher Report's Television Executive of the Year.
He is also a former Senior Vice President of CBS. He taught a graduate Media Economics course in the Media Studies and Film Department at The New School in New York and was coordinator of the department's graduate Media Management Program. He earned his BA from West Virginia University and studied Law at St John's University.
Traditional Media's Future in an Increasingly Digital World of Unlimited, Ubiquitous Content
Newspaper, magazine and broadcast media continue to lose audience and revenues to new forms of content that sprout up daily in digital forms. With a 45-year career in the media industry, Grimes will highlight important industry trends, examine changing business models, and talk about social, environmental and economic impacts of the changing media landscape.
I think the audience here are likely to be a majority penioners and are likely to find themselves left out in the cold as their generations' numbers decline. I think that Mister Grimes is rather stating the obvious - the print media's readership will be gone sooner, rather than later, partly due to mortalitry of an aging readership, partly to continued disillussionment with the cororate-owned media.
I suspect whilst there is a certain pleasantness to to the tactile sensation of a broadsheet, I'm infitely more appreciative of the potential for moremedia to compete freely on the 'net.