What was once expected to be $200 million in annual cost savings has now grown to $400 million or more. But how much blood is left to be drawn from this stone?
A combined GannHouse (Gatenett?) would own 1 out of every 6 daily newspapers in America. The goal? Buy two or three more years to figure out how to make money in digital.
The company — a giant bet on acquisition, consolidation, and cost-cutting — now owns more than 1 out of 10 American daily newspapers. What it plans to do with them remains unclear.
As single-minded, profit-driven management drives down the local news business, where is its moral center — the one that long rested, if sometimes uncomfortably, alongside the demands of running a successful business?
Kennedy, Dan. "The Worcester Sun wants to bootstrap paywalled hyperlocal digital into a Sunday print product." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 29 Sep. 2015. Web. 26 Apr. 2024.
APA
Kennedy, D. (2015, Sep. 29). The Worcester Sun wants to bootstrap paywalled hyperlocal digital into a Sunday print product. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved April 26, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2015/09/the-worcester-sun-wants-to-bootstrap-paywalled-hyperlocal-digital-into-a-sunday-print-product/
Chicago
Kennedy, Dan. "The Worcester Sun wants to bootstrap paywalled hyperlocal digital into a Sunday print product." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified September 29, 2015. Accessed April 26, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2015/09/the-worcester-sun-wants-to-bootstrap-paywalled-hyperlocal-digital-into-a-sunday-print-product/.
Wikipedia
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