Oct
06
Deadwood Crisis
Posted by newscoma | Posted in Newspapers | Posted on 06-10-2008
Encouraging news about newspapers on this warm Fall day. Not. Folks don’t need their heads in the sand either. The Recovering Journalist breaks the deadwood business down.
Hastened by the economic and credit crisis, we are moving ever closer to a moment of catastrophe for one or more major daily newspapers. Sometime in the next few months, we’re going to lose one–or it’s going to be changed so radically as to be barely recognizable under the current definition of daily newspaper. And given the lemming-like tendencies of the newspaper industry, once one newspaper goes, others will quickly follow.Call it the End of Days–or of Dailies.
I don’t work for a daily. I’m not as gloom and doom about this as some but the entire article is insightful on how the author thinks it might go down.
Also, go here.
