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

yogurt and squats blogger takes aim at the gray lady

this uproar over the times' 14324th worst op-ed ever is a pretty good example of what's wrong with twitter liberalism

I probably agree with you. What did they do now?

I've had many days lately where I briefly considered reviving this thread to remind everyone the bad and failing NYT is run by lickspittles and is terrible, then remember I have better thinks to do like play Realm Grinder

seems like people don't want investigative reporting as much as they want to see their worldview faithfully represented in the media

― k3vin k., Monday, December 12, 2016 9:27 PM (four months ago)

looks like i already made the same point a few months ago. points for consistency

bret stephens writes climate skeptic piece, denizens of wokistan threaten to cancel their NYT subscriptions

my question is how woke can you really be if you haven't already canceled your NYT sub for one of the various other nonsense controversies?

Yes that's where I'm at
If you're frustrated by our current political situation why on earth are you reading the NYT much less paying for the "privilege"

there are a shocking number of people -- who work in media -- who don't know the difference between an editorial and an op-ed

There's something odd abt this @nytimes article on small biz owners cheering Trump's decision to leave Paris treaty https://t.co/8VKj3NLBCg

— Michael Cohen (@speechboy71) June 3, 2017

talk about cultivating a source

https://twitter.com/GlennThrush

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R.I.P., Baltimore City Paper

http://digitaledition.citypaper.com/html5/mobile/production/default.aspx?pubid=1ddfe712-b9bd-43ff-8ce6-250b707c05ef

The two local free weeklies have shrunk massively since they stopped doing ads for escorts in the back - wondering how long they'll stick around.

The Stranger comes out every other week now and Seattle Weekly is no longer going to be an alt weekly. I haven't picked up either in print more than three times in 5 years in the city. The Seattle Times is the private mouthpiece of hateful anti-tax dipshits that accidentally seems to employ journalists as cover, which I do not consider it my civic duty to support. The best journalism in Seattle is done by bloggers.

milo z hits it right. The decline of classifieds has been near-fatal; adult stuff going elsewhere is a killer.

The NYT may blow dead bears at doing its job, but it is one of very few outlets that are even trying.

― troops in djibouti (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Still as true as the day it was written.

We were expecting there to be some pain with the sale of @LAWeekly. But we weren't expecting the Red Wedding. That's how deep the cuts are. 1/

— Mara Shalhoup (@mshalhoup) November 29, 2017

Mara Shalhoup is a great editor (I worked with her in a sidelong way when I did editing for the Chicago Reader) and what's in store for the LA Weekly does not look good.

http://www.ocweekly.com/news/brian-calle-la-weeklys-new-honcho-is-an-oc-weekly-scariest-person-8565478

However I'd be remiss if I didn't counterpoint her claim about the music editor with this:

Reading eulogies of the LA Weekly where people are praising the two most recent music editors like pic.twitter.com/5uxi5Pj6F6

— Kat Bee (@katbeee) November 30, 2017

(Also the actual best music editor out there is Philip Montoro.)

(That Kat Bee tweet is a thread, by the way.)

maura, thanks for that background.

When I worked for Washington City Paper it was still owned by the Chicago Reader? (On and off approximately 96-00?). Everybody knew print was on its way out but there were still islands of relevance and we were having a great time partying on the wreckage.

Repeating: All editors of @LAWeekly just got fired. One staff writer kept. Ex-editor @mshalhoup is tweeting her individual thanks. Gotta assume new mystery owners have a shadow staff waiting out in the parking lot.

— Kevin Roderick (@LAObserved) November 29, 2017

http://www.laweekly.com/news/who-owns-la-weekly-8911213

The new owners of LA Weekly don’t want you to know who they are. They are hiding from you. They’ve got big black bags with question marks covering their big bald heads.

These new owners just laid off nine hardworking journalists. Why? For sport? To start anew? To fulfill a blood vendetta that is centuries old?

Maybe they have a good reason. Maybe they don’t.

We don’t know. You don’t know. No one knows but them.

Who owns this publication?

It’s a fair question.

Who is benefiting?

You deserve to know.

Who owns LA Weekly?

uh wtf

NBC News reports:

The New York Daily News announced on Monday plans to eliminate half of its newsroom as part of a broader effort to refocus the newspaper. Daily News staff was notified of the cuts in an email sent by the company’s human resources department that also detailed a new direction for the paper, with an increased focus on breaking news with particular attention paid to crime, civil justice and public responsibility. It will still cover local news and sports, the email said.

further

http://gothamist.com/2018/07/23/tronc_daily_news_layoffs.php

most people are going to wisely repeat to you the line that "newspapers are dying" like it's everyone on the internet's fault, and not a parasitic executive class vulturing their way through profitable newsrooms, destroying lives to fund their sixth house and second yacht

— Nathan Bernhardt (@jonbernhardt) July 23, 2018

The tale of TRONC has been pretty horrific to follow the last few years.

https://amp.theguardian.com/media/2018/oct/19/independent-deal-with-saudi-publisher-back-under-spotlight

The Independent essentially licensing its brand to the Saudi government.

The same crew (SRMG) who hired Vice for their embedded video advertorials.

see also https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2018/03/29/business/media/david-pecker-trump-saudi-arabia.amp.html

The majority of American households are spending $50 to $70 per month for internet service, on top of $30 to $100 per line for mobile internet. They do so to have access to Netflix, pornography, and email, of course, but they are absolutely also paying to read the news. Tens of millions of people read BuzzFeed, Gizmodo, Slate, and The New York Times monthly—and every one of them that is not browsing at a public library, or stealing WiFi, is paying for the privilege. They’re just not paying the people who are making it.

https://www.cjr.org/business_of_news/buzzfeed-verizon-layoffs.php

the "learn to code!" retorts are largely trolling, but even if they are, good luck doing so (you can learn to code without a CS degree, obviously, but it's often a hiring requirement)

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/24/technology/computer-science-courses-college.html

(this article also talks primarily about full-time undergrads; journalists trying to get a CS degree would probably be non-matriculating/non-degree students, who have it exponentially harder (registration often only days before the first day of class, no financial aid, often limits on how many credits one can take, cumulatively, period)

xp. coding bootcamps are likely easier to get into but if i were to do one in my city a quick google tells me i would have to pay $8600 (canadian) and take 3 months off work. i will never be able to do both of those things unless i live a life of privation for 5 years

(while saving up)

https://slate.com/technology/2019/01/layoffs-at-media-organizations-the-roots-of-this-crisis-go-back-decades.html

pareene's got a point about the subsidies. remember when every blank CD you bought included a percentage that went to the labels? the internet is like one vast blank CD allowing everyone to copy everything. which is like, cool, but, you know.

sad lol

https://www.buzzfeed.com/jsweeten/do-you-still-have-a-job-at-buzzfeed-3htxk

http://www.fluxblog.org/2019/01/how-laid-off-are-you/

man, this fucking world

Timely article:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/01/28/does-journalism-have-a-future

Dear pop media websites, please know that when you have video features with 200-500 word summaries included afterwards, I just quickly skim the summaries and close out, because I don't really care about the videos. (But if you were to instead write articles, I'd read those.)

^ https://www.theonion.com/christ-article-a-video-1819595653

true in 2014, true today.

elsewhere, it's not a newspaper but the UK edition of Wired went from 12 issues a year, to 10 and then to 6 in the space of a year and a half and the subscription cost REMAINED THE SAME. it was a 50% saving on the cover price, it's now 5%.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/vice-media-reorganize-lay-10-percent-staff-1181785

A very cool thing about the VICE layoffs is that they waited until the first of the month—you know, the day when people generally need to pay their rent—to destroy 250 people’s livelihoods. You absolute soulless bastards

— Kim Kelly (@GrimKim) February 2, 2019

Today is an extremely difficult day, the worst day—and I’m heart-broken and devastated. We learned this morning, without any warning, that our primary funder is cutting off all charitable giving and that our board is shutting down @PacificStand, effective next Friday.

— Nicholas Jackson (@nbj914) August 7, 2019

shit

nymag acquired by vox

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/24/business/media/vox-buys-nymag.html

can’t read that on phone but yiiiiiiiikes

The I acquired by the Daily Mail.

BREAKING: Daily Mail publisher DMGT has bought the i paper from JPI Media for £49.6m

— Press Gazette (@pressgazette) November 29, 2019

Is there any sense to this acquisition?

misread as "Then I acquired the Daily Mail"

According to this thread the Torygraph seems to be in real trouble, what a shame.

The more I look into this story, the more I'm convinced that something isn't right at The Telegraph.https://t.co/6FVL6eEcTh

— Chris McCrudden (@cmccrudden) February 19, 2020