Paper? What paper?

The American Society of Newspaper Editors is thinking of eliminating “paper” from its name.

(And I’m called revolutionary for talking about news post-paper?)

18 Responses to “Paper? What paper?”

  1. Briantist says:

    Give it a while and “Editors” will probably have to go too, or they will have to let everyone in.

  2. Yeah…once they drop the word “editors” it will just be “the American Society” which makes a lot of sense since anyone and everyone can contribute news reports, videos, photos, etc.

  3. Tim Windsor says:

    While we’re at it, NAA could stay NAA and lose the paper.

    I suggested this back at a NAA conference in 1999 or so and was *this* close to being burned at the stake.

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  5. Grant says:

    that is just ridiculous

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  7. invitedmedia says:

    and not a decade too soon.

    sheesh!

  8. Tex Lovera says:

    To me, that actually makes their moniker more truthful. I think they’ve been more focused on editing the actual NEWS we get, as opposed to editing how it’s presented, for too many years.

  9. Bob Wyman says:

    In response to this wonderful news, I wrote a short blog entry giving a birief history of the “National Microfilm Association” morphing through a series of name changes in response to changing technology. Today, they are in the process of becoming the “Enterprise Content Management Association”… Each of the four names they’ve used reflected changes in the technology of their area and, as a result, increased scope and opportunity for their members. See:

    http://bob.wyman.us/main/2008/12/asne-sans-paper.html

    bob wyman

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  11. Dan Erwin says:

    Well, the Detroit News and Detroit Free Press are down to 3 days of paper. Don’t know how they’ll call it. Some of us will really miss having paper in our hands, so I hope they don’t get rid of paper–which is the reason for the “newspaper” change. What would I do without the Sunday NYTimes–in paper?

    So. . . news editors, not newspaper editors
    the Wurlitzer rather than a Cassavant
    Google library rather than Balliol
    Yamaha rather than Steinway
    Pioneer rather than Bang & Olufsen
    NO THANKS….
    Maybe some Luddite DNA resides within…

    But I do prefer jet to propeller.

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  14. I.F.Stoner says:

    You’re not a revolutionary, bubeleh, you’re precious.

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