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Media is dying because of consolidation. My local town newspaper used to employ 400-600 people, and have a big building downtown. Since we are a capital city, i
by briffle 3y ago
Media is dying because of consolidation. My local town newspaper used to employ 400-600 people, and have a big building downtown. Since we are a capital city, it had great coverage of government, politics, etc. It got bought by USA Today, and now my newspaper has 15 or so employees, all printing is done at their other local newspaper they bought and gutted 60 miles south, and our newspaper consits of 3-4 articles a day of actual, local content, and then a bunch of AP and USA today syndicated stories.
They also raised the prices for the papers, and wonder why people are stopping their subscriptions.
- ericd 3y agoThat’s all because the economic model has almost completely collapsed. Classifieds used to be a huge source of revenue, Craigslist gutted that for them. And to news sites, they lost most of the market power they had in terms of reaching news readers.
- wusher 3y agoThe impact of Craiglist on the local news media is grossly overlooked.