Declines in ad revenue and all those canceled events might prove manageable. But the real risk would come with a virus-inspired recession — and how the industry’s hedge-fund owners might respond to it.
We will all benefit if the Los Angeles Times becomes a West Coast counterweight to those dailies in New York and D.C. But it’ll take a bigger investment in reader retention to get there.
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?
A new study of The Independent’s 2016 shift to online-only finds that its print readership didn’t move to digital when the newspaper did. It’s now “more glanced at, it seems, than gorged on.”
“We’ve spent a lot of time looking at the state of the international news market and looking at what’s working and what’s not working, and there’s an interesting model that’s getting ignored somewhat in English-language media.”
Since 2011, the amount of time Americans spend with print has dropped about 40 percent. But the amount of ad dollars that go to print has dropped even more.
Wang, Shan. "The Times (of London) is expanding from digital to print (in Ireland)." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 24 May. 2017. Web. 26 Apr. 2024.
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Wang, S. (2017, May. 24). The Times (of London) is expanding from digital to print (in Ireland). Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved April 26, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2017/05/the-times-of-london-is-expanding-from-digital-to-print-in-ireland/
Chicago
Wang, Shan. "The Times (of London) is expanding from digital to print (in Ireland)." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified May 24, 2017. Accessed April 26, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2017/05/the-times-of-london-is-expanding-from-digital-to-print-in-ireland/.
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