Here’s an update to my previous post about the Seattle Post Intelligencer’s transition to an online-only format after its closure last week.
According to one report, online readership is down 20 percent since the company laid off almost everyone in its 165 person newsroom, staffed seattlepi.com with 20 “newsgatherers,” and its print edition faded into history,
That’s [...]
Posts from ‘March, 2009’
Update: Online wars heat up
The $15 million newspaper
How much is a major circulation newspaper worth today?
The San Diego Union-Tribune, with a circulation of 269,000, the 23d largest in the United States, miraculously found a buyer this week – Platinum Equity, a private investment firm based in Beverly Hills.
No official word of how much the company paid. But San Diego CityBeat reported that the [...]
Another milestone.
Less than two weeks after the Rocky Mountain News and the Seattle Post Intelligencer shut their doors, here’s another milestone: the Christian Science Monitor issued its final daily print edition today. But at least the paper won’t be shutting down completely. Itwill print one edition each week — and rely on its online version [...]
A stimulus package for newspapers?
When the California Media Collaborative held its inaugural conference at UC Berkeley in September 2007, an intense debate broke out as to whether foundations could rescue journalism — or whether government support, along the lines of licensing fees to the BBC, should be part of the mix as well.
CIA chief Leon Panetta, then co-director of [...]
The economics of going online
For anyone wondering whether newspapers can sustain themselves by going to an online operation only, some answers have begun to emerge in recent days. The big question is how many staffers — and reporters — can be supported from online…
