Comments on: 80 percent of newspapers gone in 18 months? Not likely.

By: WorkingReporter Blog » Washington Post Closing Regional Bureaus

WorkingReporter Blog » Washington Post Closing Regional Bureaus — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:15:47 +0000

[...] things aren’t what they used to be, Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab reports that the problem isn’t that some papers aren’t still making money. They are. [...]

By: K. Veit

K. Veit — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:56:23 +0000

Perhaps newspaper owners ought to look at themselves instead of Gooogle or the Internet. It seems it is what news they are publishing(or not publishing)is the cause. If they want to continue down the road to Liberalism or Socialism it will come at a cost to their circulation. A perfect example is their coverage(or no coverage) of the Van Jones affair.
Ken

By: Jessica Pacheco » Blog Archive » Print isn’t dying, it’s morphing. You should be too.

Wed, 06 May 2009 22:48:20 +0000

[...] it’s quite accurate. Newspapers are drowning in their own drool right now. According to The Nieman Journalism Lab , most of the large Newspaper owners are filing bankt or close [...]

By: BLOG: Print isn’t dying - it’s morphing. You should be too. | Insight Magazine

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:12:20 +0000

[...] it’s quite accurate. Newspapers are drowning in their own drool right now. According to The Nieman Journalism Lab , most of the large Newspaper owners are filing bankt or close [...]

By: Print isn’t dying, it’s morphing. You should be too. « Newstweek

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:04:41 +0000

[...] it’s quite accurate. Newspapers are drowning in their own drool right now. According to The Nieman Journalism Lab , most of the large Newspaper owners are filing bankt or close [...]

By: ¿Es posible que desaparezca el 80 por ciento de los diarios estadounidenses en 18 meses? « [blog de rubén martín]

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 04:14:47 +0000

[...] que el 80 por ciento de los periódicos estadounidenses habrán desaparecido en 18 meses más. Martin Langeveld, del Nieman Journalism Lab, dice que esto es poco [...]

By: 80% dos jornais serão extintos? | Converge Magazine

80% dos jornais serão extintos? | Converge Magazine — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:52:14 +0000

[...] Nieman Journalism Lab [...]

By: Editor&Publisher: Rectifying newspaper ‘myths’ | Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:36:59 +0000

[...] Also related: Nieman Journalism Lab: ‘80 per cent of newspapers gone in 18 months. Not likely.’ [...]

By: Is Michael Wolff Right or Just Attention Seeking? « No More Paper

Is Michael Wolff Right or Just Attention Seeking? « No More Paper — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:06:48 +0000

[...] On the one hand you’ve got Wolff fawning for the cameras and bitching about Craigslist when the fact that Craigslist now claims most of the classified ad content in the US is true but irrelevant. Yes, it happened and print can’t sustain itself without that business. But local papers could easily outdo Craigslist in terms of localized personals (bikes for sale, etc.), they just haven’t gotten their shit together enough to do so. The problem is not just a loss of classified revenue, it’s a lack of ingenuity. That said, I still think most papers have got a little more than 18 months. [...]

By: 80% novina izumrijet će u narednih 18 mjeseci | propanightmares.net

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:31:00 +0000

[...] Langeveld suprotavio se Wolfovom predviđanju o 18 mjeseci u kolumni koju je napisao za Nieman Journalism Lab rekavši “da se to ipak neće dogoditi”. [...]

By: tom mangan

tom mangan — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:20:50 +0000

I’m reminded of that song “You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille’…

I wouldn’t mind this meltdown so much if there were other jobs to be had out there.

By: Newspapers gave way to their own doom | Os jornais abriram o caminho à sua própria desgraça « O Lago | The Lake

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:23:08 +0000

[...] stir in the next few days will be all about the words of Michael Wolff that believes in “about 18 months from now, 80 percent of newspaper… I think he’s wrong, but many newspapers are doing a heck of a job trying to prove him [...]

By: Dave Barnes

Dave Barnes — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 01:47:55 +0000

80% of newspapers will NOT be gone.

But, 80% of newspaper creditors will have taken a corncob up their anal orifice.

A newspaper that cannot screw its creditors is a newspaper with zero debt.

By: Ken Kennedy

Ken Kennedy — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:28:51 +0000

Nice to see people applying common sense. *grin* The downward-pointing lines on graphs don’t go down forever any more than the upward-pointing lines (stock prices, home valuations) go up forever…reality intrudes in there somewhere, in the form of the fundamental “stuff” underlying those graphs (which sure are pretty [and useful!], but completely abstract. Nicely explained, too.

And I’m onboard with the “80 percent of the top 100 papers will not be seven-day papers 18 months from now (make that my first 2010 prediction)” prediction. Dropping days makes sense in a world where newspapers are already “a day behind” the news, and certainly allows them to drive costs down.

By: Richard L. Floyd

Richard L. Floyd — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:28:34 +0000

Martin,
We’ve were just speculating yesterday on the future of our daily paper, the Berkshire Eagle, where you were once the publisher. It seems to get thinner all the time. Yet we concluded that somebody will still need to publish the obits, local sports scores, who has been murdered, arrested, indicted, convicted, and what the city council and the school committee are up to, and the like. I suppose there are places online to find some of these things, but the paper is a reliable, familiar vehicle, at least for older consumers. I’m guessing you are right, smaller market papers will stick around, at least for a few years. -R