"Many alternative futures beckon journalists. We just don’t know - depending on whether we are in TV, radio, local newspapers, national newspapers, consumer magazines, B2B magazines, or whatever - which version of that future will prove to be our destin

"After the purchase of Emap’s consumer magazines division by H Bauer is completed, Future, with a market capitalisation of just £95m, will be the largest business-to-consumer publisher listed in the UK."

"[V]ideo game magazine publishers’ .. challenge — retaining readers as the Internet grabs their audience and advertisers."

In an interview with a German mag, BT futurologist Ian Pearson says print media will not disappear — they will be augmented through multimedia on e-ink and e-paper devices. Epaper will be part of magazines by 2010, with video by 2012, he predicts.

"On Wednesday, October 17, panelists Andrew Keen (Cult of the Amateur), Leonard Brody (NowPublic.com) and Rahaf Harfoush (Wikinomics researcher) delve into the future of news."

Journalists and radio presenters are on the endangered species list, according to Forbes.

"What is troubling about ['future of newspapers'] questions is these people are still trying to define their news organizations according to products that are becoming obsolete. The true question is ‘What will news organizations do in the future?’"

David Sullivan: "The newspaper business will never be what it was before the Internet. … But then theater is not what it was before movies…. They’re all still there, though they’re different. People enjoy them. They buy tickets and go to gallerie

"Emap has approached Stevie Spring, the chief executive of Future, about its vacant chief executive role. … Spring was contacted, but refused to comment on what she said was speculation."

"Future Publishing’s chief executive Stevie Spring has slammed Dennis Publishing’s Monkey, the first digital-only UK consumer magazine, as a load of ‘hype’."