New media, echoes of old media

If this looks odd online, that’s because it is:

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The Vancouver Sun is using the tree version photo (in which interior pages are printed in black and white) to populate the e-version online (which, of course, ought to be in full glorious color.

This is not the way to be moving boldly forward into new media during a time in which newspapers’ traditional business model is being assaulted on all sides.

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