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I buy it and the Financial Times because I know that I will get news for my money, not silly fluff and trend stories. But then I'm just one of those old farts living on a six-figure retirement income, with time to travel and grandchildren to spend on. But I'm not the sort of demographics today's newspapers want, so I've given up on the Post. Newspapers' response to this is to keep cutting staff and hoping things will change.
Nothing like making the product worse and believing that will lure back customers. In 30 years or so, the failure of this industry will be a model for avoidance. Of course, the people guiding today's newspapers to ruin already have set up their golden parachutes, so it will hardly matter to them.
Those damn reporters are responsible for the circulation decline, some apparently believe, and should be thinking about readership. Baquet announced he was leaving. Baquet as editor of the L. In an interview last week before his appointment was made public, he said reporters should be worrying more about readership than about cost cutting. O'Shea's going-away party earlier this week, he got an ovation from the Chicago Tribune newsroom, say people who were there.
They also gave him a gift: Reporter November 15, at How can you totally disregard traffic to websites?? Sure, a lot fewer people are buying the print product, but that's an obvious result of the industry giving away its content for free online. All this focus on circulation misses the point - I haven't seen any good numbers to back this up, but I bet more people are reading newspaper stories today than ever before, because the Internet has made it free and easy to do so.
I consider myself an avid newspaper reader. Newspaper content is more important, influential and widely consumed than ever before. Newspaper companies have been dismally poor at capitalizing on this expanding audience - "monetizing" it, as they might say in business schools. That more than anything else is why the industry is seen as declining. Papers are trying to figure out how to do this, and some, like the New York Times with its model of charging for premium content, seem to be doing it well.
That model might not work for many others. It's a time of growing pains, but I believe the best companies will figure it out.
The tragedy is that the quality of journalism at many places will probably suffer permanently from the retrenchment that the industry is going through right now. You raise a good question about traffic to Web sites, but it's basically apples and oranges.
Print advertisers aren't paying for that traffic—they're paying for print circulation. Right now, the drastic cutbacks facing newspapers are the results of declining circulation and advertising on the print side; the growth on the online side really isn't a factor. As you say, there still is a significant issue about monetizing online traffic.
I believe that will take care of itself over the next few years as online advertising grows and becomes more sophisticated, and as more sites follow the NY Times model of charging for online subscriptions. At some point, there will be a transition to seeing the online product as the primary editorial and advertising vehicle, but at most organizations, that transition hasn't even begun yet.
Mark Potts November 17, at I bet the NY Post is the only major, large market newspaper with a pro-Republican, pro-Bush, pro-American military slant in its news and editorial pages. Editors do not seem to realize that the old days of market oligarchy are over and readers now have other sources of news and information including cable, talk radio and the internet available to compare news stories.
The MSM will not admit bias, and the public, with options to examine, are now able to select what they think is fair. November 17, at At my kids' school last year, stacks of free papers from two competing top daily newspapers were deposited outside the front doors where they remained for hours, typically, until the janitors or the wind carried them away.
Part of the problem, I think -- unless you've got a great big sign saying "Free papers", people are afraid to just grab one, so they just go to waste. Papers shouldn't be allowed to just dump copies at schools unless someone there has agreed to take them and use them in some form or fashion.
The other problem -- even if people know they're free, a lot of folks wouldn't read the paper unless you paid them. No wonder circulation is falling. Nameless November 17, at The problem is newspapers are giving away their content online.
What else did they expect would happen to their circulation? I used to read papers all the time. Now I can just go online like the NY Times site and see the next day's articles at midnite.
So why would you want to pay for the paper? Joe November 19, at Recovering Journalist by Mark Potts.
I've spent 20 years at the intersection of traditional and digital journalism. I've helped to invent ways to read and interact with the news and advertising on computer screens and iPads, and before that, I wrote news stories on typewriters and six-ply paper. You can read more about me here. Blog powered by Typepad. And it wasn't just at one school. The Star-Ledger was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting in for its comprehensive and clear-headed coverage of the resignation of New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey , after he confessed to adultery with a male lover.
The paper awards the Star-Ledger Trophy each year to the number one high school teams in their respective sport in New Jersey. Having worked closely with the Newhouse family for years, Arwady was asked to move to Newark to financially revamp the paper.
Due to financial losses, the paper's parent company Advance Publications announced on July 31, , that it would sell the Star-Ledger unless non-union staff voluntarily left under a buyout offer, and its unionized truck drivers and mailers agreed to concessions. On January 16, , the newspaper announced layoffs of 34 employees including 18 newsroom staff. The Newark headquarters of the Star-Ledger , home to the state's largest newspaper for nearly 50 years, was sold to a New York developer in July , according to a news article released by the paper.
The Star-Ledger , which Vezza said will continue to be published seven days a week, will retain a presence in Newark in leased office space located within the downtown Gateway Center complex, where the publisher, the newspaper's editorial board, its columnists, its magazine staff and a handful of other jobs will be based. Advance Publications, the owner of the newspaper, launched a new media company — NJ Advance Media — in to provide content, advertising and marketing services for its online presence at NJ.
Prior to Whitmer, James Willse manned the helm from He was appointed following the retirement of year veteran editor Mort Pye. Willse was the former editor and publisher of the New York Daily News. Prior to accepting the Ledger ' s editorship, Willse headed the review of electronic information options for all Newhouse newspapers. He also expanded the Ledger ' use of color and encouraged a more aggressive editorial team.
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