This should be a business school study. The newspaper execs think they can
reach success by making their product more and more unpalatable. I was told of
a recent experience in new Orleans. The major paper was losing subscribers at
an alarming rate. They made the Monday through wed Paper very small, then
stopped those days entirely. Soon, out of business. Then a daily in a nearby
town (baton rouge?) saw an opportunity. The opened a nawlins bureau, fully
staffed, and printed a daily nawlins edition, which is successful. When will
people learn, you can't cut your way to success. And, you can't make money with
a website.
---- Paul Laughlin <pelaughlin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From my viewpoint, it looks like more of a loss of advertising revenue.
The Oregonian is cutting back to something like delivery only four
days a week along with an online thing full time. Their advertising has
really fallen off in the last few years. I am not real happy about
losing the daily paper.
Paul in Portland OR
On 8/3/2013 9:27 AM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> It will go away only if people stop buying it. I think the top-of-the-line
> national papers like NYT and Wall Street Journal are safe, perhaps also
> Washington Post. For the rest, they need to explore new business models and
> new ways of doing things. Sometimes I think the papers are their own worst
> enemy, though. An example: I want to keep up with what is happening in
> Denmark, and I do so mostly by watching the evening news from Danish TV
> online every day. But of course I also miss the deeper analysis that a
> quality newspaper can provide, and so I checked on prices of electronic
> subscriptions to a couple of the leading papers. In all cases, the price was
> based on sending a paper edition to me in Spain. No special price for
> electronic delivery. Sorry, but that's just 19th century thinking and if they
> continue to think that way, they are doomed.
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