By: Diane Benjamin I thought about writing on this topic, but posted it on Facebook instead. Sunday the Pantagraph had an Editorial: Newspapers are proud of what they do. This was in the first paragraph: We use different vehicles, but we’re all committed to the same thing: Sharing stories and information about the people and […]
Koch LA Times Buyout Enrages Protesters: What We Saw at the “Save Our . . .
Heard last night on 60 Minutes: The New Orleans newspaper, that has been publishing for 175 years, is down to 3 days a week. The same people own the Cleveland newspaper-they will be next. How long will the Pantagraph survive? Maybe quality news will take it’s place!
Source: http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2012/10/fewer-and-fewer-are-reading-dailies.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2FbYHz+%28Illinois+Review%29 A sobering update on the dying newspaper industry and the desperation among those newspaper giants that are losing their crowns, their kingdoms, their influence and their purpose reports that a media company just sold its Tampa newspaper outright for a 98% markdown. Why? The media company wants out of the newspaper business. And it’s a growing […]
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