Is there a thread for the rapid death of the newspaper industry?

:'-(

adapt or die, eh?

no wonder they folded, all the news on the sidebar is 150 years late

Seattle Post-Intelligencer and/or SF Chronicle are probably the next two to drop unless they figure something out

P-I is screwed, might go web-only but who cares if that's the case

http://www.printweek.com/news/881913/We-will-launch-paper/

http://www.theonion.com/content/files/images/KellyNewspapers.jpg

xpost -- I like how that URL is completely opposite from the headline.

How does delivering the paper equate to reading it?

"Rap Band"

http://moviecitynews.com/voices/2009/090302_critics.html

Grimly have you seen http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7855798.stm ?

(it's asking if newspapers have dumbed down in the last 30 years)

there will probably be a story about bears shitting in the woods accompanying it.

1989

The paper wears its Thatcherite heart on its sleeve with page leads on plans being considered by the Tory government for identity cards and the possibility of all immigrants being DNA tested.

and

George Walden pens a column about the dangers of the end of the Cold War, including the rise of Islam.

(it's asking if newspapers have dumbed down in the last 30 years)

Er. Is it? It just seems to be going "MY GOD, LOOK, WE'VE GOT AN INFINITE AMOUNT OF WEBSPACE TO FILL SO WE'RE GOING TO PUT THIS DRIVEL UP HERE." Really, the impression I get is that the only newspapers with which the author is properly familiar are the ones used to line the bottom of his cage.

Still. Yes, newspapers as we know them absolutely and totally fucked, large swathes of the broadcast media hot on their heels ... in what possible way is this news? :)

Also: if you ever wanted evidence of why newspapers as we know them should cease to exist, that "Teens: Yesterday and Today" thing might be pretty much perfect. Other than "I am a suppurating fucking bell-end", I fail to see what point the cartoonist is trying to make.

I think that is the point actually.

Ha. Fair enough.

There is nothing like reading a newspaper in its hard copy form. However, I have found from sniffing around that if your online paper looks like a newspaper, people might find your news more substantial. I have been reading the Pantagraph lately because it looks great. By the way, this paper is 172 years old!

the cartoon is an onion parody btw, just in case it's not clear who is being a suppurating fucking bell-end here.

Oh! I'd consider blushing, but ... er, actually, I'm not sure it works as a parody either.

<Looks again>

OK. Might not be as offensively shit, but it's still shit. Unless there's some fabulous piece of context in which it should be viewed?

Fabulous piece of context = most US political cartoonists.

Christ, really? *Boggles*. OK, in that case I'm going to step back ... there are some holes in my knowledge I'm happy to keep. Apologies to the Onion cartoonist, but to be honest: you might actually be better simply using your pen to go around stabbing some of your contemporaries in the neck.

Chuck Asay died for your sins: batshit rightwing cartoonists 2009

^ Threads I have never opened and never intend to, #26. And I think this little exchange has really, really impressed upon me how many tears of blood I would weep if I did.

never read it either

You're missing out

There is nothing like reading a newspaper in its hard copy form. However, I have found from sniffing around that if your online paper looks like a newspaper, people might find your news more substantial. I have been reading the Pantagraph lately because it looks great. By the way, this paper is 172 years old!

#462 in the series of things I never thought I would see referenced on ILX. I grew up in a tiny shit town in McLean County, so that was pretty much the only paper I even saw for a good chunk of my youth. I always thought the mustachioed Bill Flick was hilarious when I was 12.

i still don't understand that onion cartoon

tomorrow is the final print edition of the seattle post-intelligencer. 146 years...

the final print edition

(sings)

I gave my love a newspaper, with no paaaay-per.

seattle post-intelligencer

<Doffs cap, sadly>

Seattle P-I Editor and Publisher Roger Oglesby addressed staff in the newsroom Monday morning. Here are his remarks:

Tonight we'll be putting the paper to bed for the last time. But the bloodline will live on.

Hearst is announcing today that the P-I will become an online-only news operation. The last print edition will appear tomorrow.

We have copies of the press release for you, as well as a letter from (The Hearst Corp. CEO) Frank Bennack and (Hearst Newspapers President) Steve Swartz. But first I have just a couple of things to say.

This is a hard day for all of us. We were fortunate to be part of a great newspaper with a great tradition, and we've been blessed to be part of a wonderful group of talented people. We all hate to see that end.

But we knew it was coming. Hearst fought for years to keep this place going, but time and these rotten economic conditions finally caught up with us.

But there's another part to the story, and I'm not going to let you forget it. It's the part that has to do with what will live on and who's responsible for it. Tomorrow, SeattlePI.com will be reborn, outside the JOA. It will continue, and it will thrive, and it will be a strong and vital voice of this city for years to come.

Some of you will part of that ongoing effort, and you have an exciting road ahead of you. But we should all remember that everybody at this paper helped to build SeattlePI.com and the foundation on which its future will rest. Every one of you, everyone at this paper, should take pride in that. I will, and you should, too.

As for the paper, tonight will be the final run. So let's do it right. This is a great newspaper and has been for a long time. Let's show the world it still is. Let's show them what we can do, one more time.

http://www.seattlepi.com/business/403793_piclosure17.html

145 editorial jobs going, only 20 to remain. rip.

http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2009/03/16/inside_and_outside_the_p_i

http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd118/embarchie/2008606173.jpg http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd118/embarchie/pi_globe01.jpg

http://www.vintageseattle.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/seattle_pi_01.jpg

estimated 2010 numbers

From the Stranger piece linked above:

In one of the areas that remained populated, page designers ("Of which none will be kept," a guide said)

WELL, NO SHIT. If there aren't any pages to design ...

Mind you, perhaps they could hire one to design a new banner for future save-newspapers rallies. This one's the worst I've ever seen:

http://www.thestranger.com/images/blogimages/2009/03/16/1237256847-rally5.jpg

Still. Got a new display name out of it.

the number of former and/or aspiring newspaper/alt-weekly people i know who can't find jobs or have been forced out of their old ones is reaching really pretty alarming levels. and people i know who are still employed are dealing with unpaid furloughs and all that shit.

and people i know who are still employed are dealing with unpaid furloughs and all that shit

*Waves, cheerlessly*

True, in our (ultimately Gannett-owned) place these are voluntary. And it suits me: going part-time halved my salary, so I'm not going to notice the cost of a few extra days' holiday. But still. The whole game is F U C K E D and I'm under no illusions about that.

from today's P-I
http://www.thestranger.com/images/blogimages/2009/03/17/1237329845-piobit.jpg

True, in our (ultimately Gannett-owned) place these are voluntary

Really? My gf works for a Gannett-owned newspaper and the furloughs are mandatory for everyone.

http://www.thestranger.com/images/blogimages/2009/03/16/1237268560-piphotodoctored.jpg

gallows lol, thx

Really? My gf works for a Gannett-owned newspaper and the furloughs are mandatory for everyone

I'm in the UK, though. From what I understand, employment law here means they can't make it mandatory.

That said: senior managers are all taking a week's unpaid leave with no questions asked, or so we're told.

A whole lot of responses to the question: why did you cancel your NYT/Guardian/Idaho Mountain Express subscription

https://www.niemanlab.org/2021/10/expensive-boring-and-wrong-here-are-all-the-news-publications-people-canceled-and-why/

Interesting piece

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/society-and-culture/the-inside-story-of-backstabbing-feuds-and-intrigue-at-the-daily-mail

Superfluous announcement gets canned

📢 '...put unwanted newspapers in the bin...'

This is one example of the announcements that we're getting rid of, making the passenger experience better and delivering on the Williams-Shapps #PlanForRail. 

Read more on announcements we’re removing: https://t.co/ZZQGqW58Jn pic.twitter.com/l2ITutFsci

— Department for Transport (@transportgovuk) January 21, 2022

Captured on video: the last willing reader of the Telegraph

Will Pittsburgh become America’s most important city without a newspaper?

One of the country’s oldest newspapers, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, says it’s shutting down in May. Not going digital-only — just disappearing. But the delayed closure could also spur some long-delayed action.

tl,dr: incredible asshole owners battled its union for years on end, lost in court, chose to shut down

Descended from the Pittsburgh Gazette, established in 1786 as the first newspaper published west of the Allegheny Mountains, the paper formed under its present title in 1927 from the consolidation of the Pittsburgh Gazette Times and The Pittsburgh Post.