Idaho's shrinking newspapers look at a brave new (online) world
http://www.boiseweekly.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A309076
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
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The Death of Newspapers
http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/Opinion/Content?oid=97000
"Most of these cuts--although not necessarily all of them--are typical of the dumb-ass greed of today's newspaper companies. It happens all the time: A newspaper has an off quarter or year, profits-wise (they're still profitable, mind you, just not as profitable as shareholders or managers want); management responds by cutting staff and resources to keep profits high; the paper's quality invariably suffers without the resources it had before; readers/advertisers notice this and stop reading or buying ads; a newspaper has another off quarter or year, profits-wise; repeat cycle."
Chronicle of the Newspaper Death Foretold
http://www.slate.com/id/2154678/
"Bogart and the project rat out the usual guilty parties for falling circulation—radio and television. But they also cite city-to-suburb migration (and the distribution difficulties caused by metro sprawl), growing transience that prevents people from establishing roots that in turn nurture the newspaper habit, and changes in work and commuting patterns, as well as the flaccid editorial product in many markets."
Participatory journalism and the inevitable death of newspapers
http://www.kuam.com/news/12624.aspx
"In my opinion, most newspapers will fall victim to their own ignorance/arrogance and failure to realize they're too far behind the times until it's too late. They'll be dead before they know it - a sad but not unexpected casualty in the name of industrial progress."
"In my opinion, most newspapers will fall victim to their own ignorance/arrogance and failure to realize they're too far behind the times until it's too late. They'll be dead before they know it - a sad but not unexpected casualty in the name of industrial progress."
The Slow Death of Newspapers
"I don't so much mind that newspapers are dying -- it's watching them commit suicide that pisses me off."
'Spokesman-Review' Laying Off 14
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003667623
AP- Blaming declining advertising and circulation revenues, The Spokesman-Review newspaper says it is laying off 14 newsroom employees as part of a companywide cost-savings.
The layoffs announced Thursday involve a dozen reporters, a manager and a nonunion employee from a newsgathering staff of about 137.
Publisher W. Stacey Cowles said layoffs and early retirements in other departments will eliminate about 40 of the company's 550 positions by the end of the year.
Editor Steven A. Smith said the layoffs represent a reduction of about $1 million from the newsroom's budget of more than $9 million.
The layoffs hit the paper's Idaho reporting staff especially hard. At least six of the paper's eight reporters based in Coeur d'Alene were let go.
AP- Blaming declining advertising and circulation revenues, The Spokesman-Review newspaper says it is laying off 14 newsroom employees as part of a companywide cost-savings.
The layoffs announced Thursday involve a dozen reporters, a manager and a nonunion employee from a newsgathering staff of about 137.
Publisher W. Stacey Cowles said layoffs and early retirements in other departments will eliminate about 40 of the company's 550 positions by the end of the year.
Editor Steven A. Smith said the layoffs represent a reduction of about $1 million from the newsroom's budget of more than $9 million.
The layoffs hit the paper's Idaho reporting staff especially hard. At least six of the paper's eight reporters based in Coeur d'Alene were let go.
The future of newspapers / Who killed the newspaper?
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=7830218
The most useful bit of the media is disappearing. A cause for concern, but not for panic
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