(Stan Veit/Digibarn Computer Museum)

Last night, after a UConn alumni event featuring Political Science Professor Howard Reiter, a fellow Husky and I walked through Cambridge's Harvard Square (in below 0 temps I might add).  There, I was reminded of just how much journalism has, and will, change.  A Cambridge icon is the Out of Town News newsstand which opened in 1955 and is actually listed in the National Register of Historic Places.  This is where Microsoft's co-founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen famously bought the magazine which inspired the creation of the company.  Even with such a rich history, times change and the newsstand is closing.  Martin Finucane from the Boston Globe wrote a terrific story on the newsstand, its history and demise.   It may be sad but it is not surprising.  The Pew Research Center recently released data that "the internet, which emerged this year as a leading source for campaign news, has now surpassed all other media except television as an outlet for national and international news."  While I dread the day when I can't sit down with a cup of coffee in the morning to read my delivered copy of The New York Times, that moment may come sooner than we think.  Anyone else still reading a hard copy of a newspaper?