Quote of the day: Will Steacy

photo by Will Steacy -the Guardian

“Technology can allow us to do things with greater efficiency and productivity, labour costs are reduced, but what I wanted to show is that there is a human element lost in that. We are in the middle of this huge transition, and the newspaper industry itself is very much at the front of this process that will happen in every other industry. The beneficiaries of this are a privileged and extremely wealthy few, but a broad spectrum of highly skilled workers are going to be displaced and out of luck for a very long time.”

Will Steacy, The Guardian – a poignant piece on the demise of newspapers and the ‘great American newsroom’

Image: Will Steacy