It doesn't matter what the Times or any other print newspaper does -- the future of news is on the internet.
Newsprint's true problem.
The name refers, of course, to the American effort to develop an atomic bomb during World War II, an-exaggerated-for-effect overstatement of the problems facing ink-on-paper newspapers: declining circulation, stagnant ad revenues and rising costs.
Fitting choice given how the ugly truth of newsprint's uncomfortable problem lies with physics. It takes orders of magnitude more energy to propagate ink and paper molecules through a
Newtonian world than it takes to propagate electrons through a Einsteinian world.
While visits to newspaper Web sites are increasing, they account for a small part of revenue and do not draw enough advertising to support newsroom operations.
Newsprint's true problem - trying to ignore newsprint's uncomfortable problem by tippy-toeing around it only makes it grow worse.
national and international ambitions
TRB needs to forget about its outside ambitions and stick to its own backyard if it truly wants a shot at scooping the Inet.
a sense among some that online publishing will someday push aside many print newspapers.
Unless newsprint becomes a government funded boondoggle you can probably bank on the laws of physics driving the dwindling fortunes of newsprint.
using citizens to “report” on local matters
TRB ought to drop its arrogant innuendo that it trusts
citizen journalists only as far as
"report[ing]" on local matters.
As for the notion that reporters could come up with solutions to what ails the business, Mr. Niles said, “None of these legions of other people have come up with the answers, so why shouldn’t reporters take a shot?”
As long as Mr Niles and his cohorts stubbornly choose to ignore our answers we shall continue newsprint's
circulation declination therapy. :)