Microsoft exec on solutions to cuts in newspapers

An interesting read - it is a strong attack on Google, but does raise some good points on how the media industry can save itself from oblivion:

Microsoft exec maps out online strategy for media
Interesting speech on the online future of media by the Chief Counsel for Intellectual Property Strategy at Microsoft on a day when the Associated Press became the latest US media organization to announce job cuts.

Thomas C. Rubin: UK Association of Online Publishers
Prepared Remarks by Thomas C. Rubin, Chief Counsel for Intellectual Property Strategy, Microsoft Corp.
“The Change We Need”
UK Association of Online Publishers
London, England
Nov. 20, 2008

TOM RUBIN: Thank you for that kind introduction, and thank you for inviting me to speak at this important conference focused on creating vibrant business models for publishers online.
It was a sad day last month when we read that after 100 years the Christian Science Monitor will cease print publication next April. The Monitor is an esteemed newspaper with particularly distinguished international coverage. It was the first American newspaper to get a reporter behind the lines with the anti-Soviet resistance in Afghanistan in 1979. And during its long history, it has nurtured generations of young foreign correspondents, including Jill Carroll, who you may remember was held hostage in Iraq. MORE

Associated Press to 'cut 10 per cent of staff'

More cuts, now from the wires. Will Reuters, AFP, Bloomberg be next?