Neil Morton

Editor and journalist Neil Morton writes in the following viewpoint that while he grew up reading newspapers, he now gets most of his information from the Internet, and he asserts that many people in his generation and younger are doing the same. The various websites found on the Internet have much to offer that newspapers cannot match, including breaking news coverage, diverse opinions from around the world, and stories about topics of interest to young people. One important advantage of the Internet, he argues, is that it enables readers to choose and explore which stories are of most interest to them. Newspapers must radically change in order to survive ten or twenty years from now, he concludes. Morton was editor in chief of Shift magazine, a bimonthly Canadian publication that examined digital...