To save money on newsprint and late press runs, Gannett told its newspapers not to bother printing results and to direct the curious online. Here’s how that played out.
In cities across America, you won’t be able to find even the most cursory election results in your Wednesday morning newspaper next week. Is this speeding up newspapers’ transition to digital — or just burning a bridge they still need to cross?
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Doctor, Ken. "Newsonomics: “Digital defeats print” is the headline as Gannett steps away from printed election results." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 1 Nov. 2018. Web. 25 Apr. 2024.
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Doctor, K. (2018, Nov. 1). Newsonomics: “Digital defeats print” is the headline as Gannett steps away from printed election results. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved April 25, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2018/11/newsonomics-digital-defeats-print-is-the-headline-as-gannett-steps-away-from-printed-election-results/
Chicago
Doctor, Ken. "Newsonomics: “Digital defeats print” is the headline as Gannett steps away from printed election results." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified November 1, 2018. Accessed April 25, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2018/11/newsonomics-digital-defeats-print-is-the-headline-as-gannett-steps-away-from-printed-election-results/.
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