“The way people consume news has fundamentally changed” with the advent of the Web, creating a new media landscape that will be dominated by niche Web sites rather than general interest newspapers.
That prediction came Thursday from Jim VandeHei, a former high-profile political reporter for the Washington Post, who caused a minor sensation in the journalism world several months ago when he announced he’d be leaving the venerable paper to build an online news site from the ground up. He was in Madison through the University of Wisconsin’s writer-in-residence program and spoke to local journalists at Capital Newspapers.