Pike Place Market Loses Latest Fish Wrap
Q. What does a journalism school grad use his or her BA from the local Liberal Arts College for in a recession?
A. They are going to be the world's most successful subscription only bloggers the world has ever seen. [Good luck with that]
More news for the Print Industry:
Another Lib voice on the Internet trying to employ a bunch of journalism grads off of ad revenue. Ain’t gonna work as a business model boys. Time to just throw in the towel.
Folks at Denver’s Rocky Mountain News think they have a chance to save their Liberal Jobs too and demonstrate a fundamental lack of understanding of basic economics:
Did you know that you can get all the news that you want to read on the Internet already? Why pay for a local site to employ journalism grads when an average monkey with a typewriter (Rob Port) can do a better job reporting the news?
My wife subscribes to the local fish wrap because they have coupons on Sundays and for $10 a month, the coupons are worth it. Most days it goes in the recycling without being opened. The news is available online up to 24 hours earlier and you can get the same AP stories just about everywhere. I start my day at AZCentral.com for local news before reading national news at SAB or other blogs like Wizbang. Rob is far more entertaining than most journos.
Good luck with your websites folks.
A. They are going to be the world's most successful subscription only bloggers the world has ever seen. [Good luck with that]
More news for the Print Industry:
SEATTLE - The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, which has chronicled the news of the city since logs slid down its steep streets to the harbor and miners caroused in its bars before heading north to Alaska’s gold fields, will print its final edition Tuesday.
Hearst Corp., which owns the 146-year-old P-I, said Monday that it failed to find a buyer for the newspaper, which it put up for a 60-day sale in January after years of losing money. Now the P-I will shift entirely to the Web.
“Tonight will be the final run, so let’s do it right,” publisher Roger Oglesby told the newsroom.
Hearst’s decision to abandon the print product in favor of an Internet-only version is the first for a large American newspaper, raising questions about whether the company can make money in a medium where others have come up short.
David Lonay, 80, a subscriber since 1950, said he’ll miss a morning ritual that can’t be replaced by a Web-only version.
“The first thing I do every day is get the P-I and read it,” Lonay said. “I really feel like an old friend is dying.”
Hearst’s move to end the print edition leaves the P-I’s larger rival, the Seattle Times, as the only mainstream daily in the city.
“It’s a really sad day for Seattle,” P-I reporter Angela Galloway said. “The P-I has its strengths and weaknesses but it always strove for a noble cause, which was to give voice to those without power and scrutiny of those with power.” [WTF does that mean?]
Seattle follows Denver in becoming losing a daily newspaper this year. The Rocky Mountain News closed after its owner, E.W. Scripps Co., couldn’t find a buyer. In Arizona, Gannett Co.‘s Tucson Citizen is set to close Saturday, leaving one newspaper in that city.
And last month Hearst said it would close or sell the San Francisco Chronicle if the newspaper couldn’t slash expenses in coming weeks.
The newspaper industry has seen ad revenue fall in recent years as advertisers migrate to the Internet, particularly to sites offering free or low-cost alternatives for classified ads. Starting last summer, the recession intensified the decline in advertising revenue in all categories.
Four newspaper companies, including the owners of the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and the Philadelphia Inquirer, have sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in recent months.
Another Lib voice on the Internet trying to employ a bunch of journalism grads off of ad revenue. Ain’t gonna work as a business model boys. Time to just throw in the towel.
Folks at Denver’s Rocky Mountain News think they have a chance to save their Liberal Jobs too and demonstrate a fundamental lack of understanding of basic economics:
DENVER - Former Rocky Mountain News staffers plan to start an online newspaper if they can get 50,000 paying subscribers by April 23.
That date would have been the News’ 150th anniversary.
The E.W. Scripps Co. shut down the News last month, citing mounting losses.
The founders of InDenverTimes.com say the site will go live on May 4 if they meet the subscription goal.
The Web site would be free but subscribers who pay $4.99 a month would get interactive chats, columns and other extras.
The site calls the subscriptions an investment “to encourage a bold, creative effort to continue a vision based on a 150-year Denver tradition.”
InDenverTimes.com includes 30 reporters and editors who worked at the Rocky.
Did you know that you can get all the news that you want to read on the Internet already? Why pay for a local site to employ journalism grads when an average monkey with a typewriter (Rob Port) can do a better job reporting the news?
My wife subscribes to the local fish wrap because they have coupons on Sundays and for $10 a month, the coupons are worth it. Most days it goes in the recycling without being opened. The news is available online up to 24 hours earlier and you can get the same AP stories just about everywhere. I start my day at AZCentral.com for local news before reading national news at SAB or other blogs like Wizbang. Rob is far more entertaining than most journos.
Good luck with your websites folks.
