Posted on 07/01/2019 10:34:15 AM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
The list of daily newspapers that have shut down grows more rapidly by the year, not to mention those that have had massive layoffs. Monday, another of America's oldest dailies, the Vindicator, which serves Youngstown, Ohio, said its last edition would be on Aug. 31. The paper had just celebrated its 150th anniversary.
The local television station reported that 144 people will lose their jobs. The Vindicator was of modest size by daily newspaper standards. It claimed 100,000 online and newspaper readers. Like many papers, it has been owned by a family. Due to unsustainable losses, the Maag-Browns could not find a buyer. Nor could they afford to keep the doors open. Publisher Betty Brown Jagnow and General Manager Mark Brown wrote, "It is with broken hearts that we say goodbye and a final thank you." It was not unlike the statements by so many newspaper owners have penned recently.
The shuttering of the Vindicator comes just as the New Orleans Times-Picayune merges into the New Orleans Advocate. Virtually the entire Times-Picayune staff lost their jobs. MediaNews Group, famous for its newspaper cost-cutting, recently sliced about a third of the jobs at the Reading Eagle. It is also 150 years old. MediaNews has sliced jobs from Denver to Boston. The company made an unsuccessful run at a buyout of Gannett, an effort the Gannett board killed just weeks ago. And the problem of cuts in the newspaper industry has become an epidemic. A Pew study last year showed that "At least 36% of the largest newspapers across the United States – as well as at least 23% of the highest-traffic digital-native news outlets – experienced layoffs between January 2017 and April 2018." The largest newspaper chains in America have not fared much better. All have had cut jobs.
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I will rejoice when the rag Allentown Morning Call goes out of business. They are now owned by the Chicago Tribune.
Too bad, so sad. Let them learn how to code.
Well, you’re living there in Allentown...................
One hundred and fifty years of lies and now it’s over! Good news whenever a rag goes out of business. Nice news to start a week off.
Exactly, newspapers and soon many other product sellers will find out that openly and hatefully opposing 50% of America is not a good marketing scheme.
It is said that when there is only one lawyer in a town, he will go broke. When there are two lawyers they both get rich.
Same with newspapers. With one newspaper, it presents just one point of view. A second newspaper can balance out that view and they keep each other honest.
Driving competition out is not always the best business decision.
Today you can pick up a newspaper from anywhere in the nation and they will all speak with one voice. Owners of newspapers told over half their potential customer we don’t want you as a customer and so their customers found other sources for their news.
Die you leftist lying RAT party propaganda hacks die! Another one bites the dust!
I have wondered if there is a major conservative newspaper left?
The WSJ doen’t count and they aren’t “conservative” in most aspects anyway.
There used to be that family owned paper in NH somewhere.
The online revolution dogpiled on the daily print medium, which had taken lumps with the advent of radio (and how's radio doing?) and television (dancing with the 'stars') -- and we already know the attacks on conservative views online is escalating. Be careful what you wish for.
Living in Allentown listening to Billy Joel songs......
you are thinking of the Manchester Union
Gone
“””I have wondered if there is a major conservative newspaper left?”””
I doubt a major conservative newspaper exists.
For one thing, most of today’s newspapers are staffed by journalism graduates who paid mega-bucks to get indoctrinated in leftist ideology.
And the Union people crawled awaaaaaaaaaayayyayayayaaaaaaaaaaay!.................
If you want news, go online or listen to the radio. If you want history, read a newspaper or a magazine.
The major $$$ income for newspapers now is Political $$$.
Paid political ads from both parties.
If they can get both parties fighting...they make more money.
If it’s like our “local paper,” all it does is reprint stories from the New York Times and Washington Post.
When I was a kid, newspapers were THE place for movie listings, buying and selling cars and other items, stock market prices, sports, and comics.
All those are gone. Nobody buys a newspaper to see what's showing and the showtimes, and movie theaters don't advertise there, anymore. Nobody checks stock prices in a newspaper. Nobody checks car prices in the newspaper. The comics keep getting smaller, and the last "must read" newspaper comic was Calvin and Hobbes, which left in 1995. New talent isn't going into the newspaper business.
The newspapers are down to covering the local business scene, local non-professional sports teams (high school and college) and obituaries.
They can still survive in one zip code towns, but to do so, they have to focus on local stuff and keep the staff really lean.
Best quote on Superman: "The most unrealistic part of the movie was a guy making a living as a reporter."
Ditto for the Seattle Times and WaPo and the NYT - asking much??
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