Newspapers: "the iPods of 1690"

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Ken Paulson, ex-USA Today editor, imagines a world in which newspapers came after the Internet, rather than the other way around. Worth a read, via Romenesko.

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Megan Garber is an assistant editor at the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University. She was formerly a CJR staff writer.