What media should be doing in the digital age: Lost Remote’s Steve Safran talks with Coy Barefoot

Steve Safran is the managing editor of Lost Remote, a blog that tracks the latest changes in media. Safran is a digital media consultant with a background in television news. He spoke with Coy Barefoot on the October 3rd edition of WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now about the challenges of convergence.

“Convergence media is everything that people have come to accept now in their lives from the TiVo box, to the phone that now plays music, to the computer that can now stream video,” says Safran.

But, these changes won’t come without growing pains, as traditional media such as newspapers lose their advertising revenue to their online competitors. Over the course of this interview, Safran outlines some recommendations for how media outlets might evolve to survive.