
Back in August Ross Dawson predicted that newspapers in their current form will be irrelevant in Australia in 2022. That received significant international attention including from The Australian, The Guardian, Editor & Publisher (which called him the ‘Wizard of Aussie’) and many others.
Part of the point he wanted to make was that this date is different for every country. As such he has created a Newspaper Extinction Timeline that maps out the wide diversity in how quickly we can expect newspapers to remain significant around the world. First out is USA in 2017, followed by UK and Iceland in 2019 and Canada and Norway in 2020. In many countries newspapers will survive the year 2040.
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Ross Dawson is globally recognized as a leading futurist, entrepreneur, keynote speaker, strategy advisor, and bestselling author.
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About Zoran Opalic
Around the World: 1997. NY, USA - Design Workshop at the New York School of Visual Arts // 2003. Hamburg, Germany - Mario Garcia Studio - media design,future of print media.// 2004. Innsbruck, Austria - News Desk, News Desk work shop// 2007. NY, USA - Future of Media and New Technology, New York // 2007. Miami, USA - "React to the news in the short term - in the newsroom work flow".
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January 1st, 2008:
madeIN magazine.
Occupation or position held: Publisher/Owner
Name and address of employer: Dobro Slovo
Brace Domany 8, 10000 Zagreb (Croatia)
Type of business or sector Publishing (Magazine) Web
January 1st, 2001 - December 31st, 2007
Vecernji list daily.
Occupation or position held: Art Director
Type of business or sector Publishing, Daily Newspaper.
Early Years:
I have worked on a different creative media projects — Jutarnji list daily (at the time - 1998. new daily newspapers in Croatia), Globus, Studio, HAK, Nova Vjencanja, Auto Plus...
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