Bloggers Kill Off Another Newspaper

Mistermj · Oct 27, 2008

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</TD><TD style="FONT-SIZE: 14px" vAlign=top width="99%">LOS ANGELES (AP) - Newsroom staffing at the Los Angeles Times is shrinking again.
Newspaper spokeswoman Nancy Sullivan said Monday that 75 staffers are being laid off in the latest round of cuts.
She declined further comment and would not disclose how many journalists will remain at the paper. The Times, which is owned by Chicago-based Tribune Co., reduced its overall staff by 250 people last summer, including 150 from the newsroom. Editor Russ Stanton blamed the cutbacks on the economic slowdown.

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JudgeWapner · Oct 27, 2008

Willie99 said:
until the next rebound in auto sales. Judge, your off-beat analogies spiced with humor intended to make a point are missing on this issue my friend.

Okay Willie, let me semi serious for a minute, but only a minute. I would think there are numerous factors that are putting a hurting to newspapers. I think blogs would be way down the list while the current state of the economy would be way up the list.

kingbill · Oct 27, 2008

Thank god...I hope someone starts burning books to...fuck Amazon

barman · Oct 27, 2008

Judge Wapner said:
Okay Willie, let me semi serious for a minute, but only a minute. I would think there are numerous factors that are putting a hurting to newspapers. I think blogs would be way down the list while the current state of the economy would be way up the list.

Of course blogs are way down the list.

The most pertinent factor to the decline in print newspaper circulation is that with each passing day (literally) thousands of Americans can more quickly and conveniently score the same product formerly sought within a print newspaper simply by going online from home or work.

So of course advertisers are increasingly reluctant to pay the same rates for print exposure when less people are using print newspapers.

Smart "newspapers" are building online products and gradually moving their primary advertising there, but even then they are going to be challenged with job layoffs because the cyber product does not require even remotely the same manpower to produce and distribute.

barman · Oct 27, 2008

This 21st century paradigm shift has very little to do with the editorial slant of any particular newspaper. It is affecting all print newspapers with almost equal impact. And the most affected are newspapers from major population centers.

The biggest gaffe by most mainstream newspapers over the past decade has likely been poor forecasting of the effect of the internet

In my work with DrugSense, I have spent the past nine years reviewing and analyzing the content and production product of mainstream newspapers across North America. As recently as 2002, it would be fair to say that only about 25% of newspapers had a notable online presence and it was mostly just the highlights from their print editions.

Now, six years later, it's an inverse percentage with maybe just 25% of mainstream newspapers not having their entire print content online each morning. And many are of course expanding content since in the cyber product they are not restricted by space constraints.

For most mainstream newspapers, the biggest adverse competition for their print product is their very own cyber product.