The deadline is dead

I've been corresponding with Linda Jones, the journalist and blogger behind an opinion column in this week's Press Gazette. Linda comments here now and then, Hi Linda :) I don't quite agree with her stance in the column. Actually, that's a lie - I don't agree with it at all. But, rather than go into the details of our amiable email chitter-chatter, I'll quote this single bit from me:

And as for "the deadline" Forget it, it's exactly what it says it is, dead. Instant publishing will crush the notion of the newspaper deadline within one year. And those newspapers that don't understand why that is so, will die a year after. But, that's a topic for another day...

Or, as it happens, not another day, but today. Blog uber-god Jeff Jarvis, a man I once interviewed over the net and met briefly on Regent Street a few months back, chimes in,

It’d [be] ironic, or possibly just odd, that one of the newest papers in Britain, The Independent, is the most stuck in the mud online. They put  up pay walls and the editor, Simon Kelner, just decreed that he’d never put stories on the web first, like his competitor, The Guardian, and that he wants to raise the price of the declining print product... Roy Greenslade sits Kelner down for a talkin’-to

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