Stop presses
9 February 2007 12:33 amHow long does it take for some newspapers to become digital-only?
362 years.
Founded in 1645 by Sweden's Queen Kristina, Post-och Inrikes Tidningar (which means mail and domestic tidings), became web-only at the beginning of last month.
The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) will continue to recognise Post-och Inrikes Tidningar's ranking as the oldest newspaper still in circulation.
A WAN spokesman said: "An online newspaper is still a newspaper, so we'll leave it on the list".
Source: Associated Press
February 11th, 2007 at 12:15 am
[...] However, even an expansive view of the section would not seem to bring an exclusively online publication within the defintion of a “periodical”. Wired magazine predicted that, in 2007, a major newspaper would give up printing on paper to publish exclusively online. It was an easy prediction. Since 1 January 2007, after 362 years of offline publication, the Swedish paper Post-och Inrikes Tidningar is now exclusively an online publication (hat tip to Fergus). The point of the Wired prediction was not that within two days something that had been long expected would actually happen, but that, where it has led, others – with less predictablility – will doubtless follow (maybe Wired is laying the groundwork for such a move itself?!). One of these may be Irish, and if not this year, then at some stage in the (near) future. And this is to say nothing of the many fine exclusively online publications in Ireland and elsewhere – not merely blogs and websites, but sites that look like newspapers (such as BreakingNews.ie) and magazines (such as Silicon Republic), but without the offline cat-litter or chip-wrapper. On any reading, these are excluded from the definition of “periodical” in the Bill, and are thus unable to subscribe to the Press Council. [...]