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Thursday, August 9, 2012

Media Will the Oregonian End Daily Publication?

Posted by Eli Sanders on Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 11:28 AM

The newspaper is owned by the same people who decided to stop printing the New Orleans Times-Picayune every day, and as Willamette Week reports:

Oregonian editors now indicate the paper is likely to follow suit, although no one is saying when that will happen or how many days the newspaper will drop from its publishing schedule.

“There’s just not enough advertising,” says Ken Doctor, a news industry analyst for Harvard University’s Nieman Journalism Lab. “[The paper's ownership] is acknowledging that daily print has ended its lifespan."

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Damn, they publish the New York Times crossword daily! (it's an otherwise unfathomably horrible paper. Just awful.)

Posted by mikethehammer on August 9, 2012 at 12:08 PM

The old newspaper format used to be broadsheets with about half the "paper" covered in ads.

Corner, banner, above the fold, end page.

Adapt to the old format and delay "electronic" print until after physical print or die.

Posted by Will in Seattle

on August 9, 2012 at 12:33 PM

another victim of Union labor........

Posted by Union'a are the enemy of American liberty on August 9, 2012 at 2:00 PM

@2, in The Oregonian's case, I genuinely think the issue is less to do with a failure to adapt and more to do with it being an unspeakably terrible newspaper. It's so awful, I won't take the free copies they offer at my oil change place.

Posted by quix on August 9, 2012 at 2:03 PM

@3, another victim of the very medium on which your comment was posted. Stop posting and you won't be complicit.

Posted by sarah70 on August 9, 2012 at 2:03 PM

@3 it isn't a union paper dumbas

Posted by ian on August 9, 2012 at 2:35 PM