Time.com: The 10 major newspapers ‘that will either fold or go digital’
March 9th, 2009Posted by Judith Townend in Editors' pick, Journalism, Online Journalism
Time’s predictions Updated to make it clear, as pointed out on the MediaNation blog and by Adam Reilly, for example, that the list was published on the Time.com Business&Tech section of its site, but was authored by Douglas A. McIntyre, who writes at 24/7 WallStreet.com.
The next US papers to face the chop, as predicted by McIntyre:
1. The Philadelphia Daily News
2. The Minneapolis Star Tribune
3. The Miami Herald
4. The Detroit News
5. The Boston Globe
6. The San Francisco Chronicle
7. The Chicago Sun-Times
8. NY Daily News
9. The Fort Worth Star Telegram
10. The Cleveland Plain Dealer
Tags: Journalism, Newspapers
March 9th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
All major newspapers in our country will either be all-online or out of business within three years. As the giants convert, the weeklies and the locals will soon follow.
We at The Alternative Press (http://www.thealternativepress.com) are ahead of the curve. We are New Jersey’s all-online daily local newspaper, currently serving Millburn, Livingston, Summit, New Providence and Berkeley Heights. With over 3,000,000 hits since October and more than 75 paid freelancers and 14 columnists on staff, we have developed a promising model to serve as a lifeboat for the world of professional journalism.
In addition, we are 100% local – all of our reporters and columnists live in New Jersey and nearly 90% live in the 5 towns we currently cover. The management of The Alternative Press were born and raised in New Jersey, making our site truly local.
Michael Shapiro
Editor, The Alternative Press
http://www.thealternativepress.com
March 9th, 2009 at 6:31 pm
[...] Read it and shake your head – because, again, with this kind of thought (that advertisers will soon realize that no one clicks on Internet ads and will then come back to the newspapers and save them – no, really, that’s what’s being suggested) being proffered by the professional journalist atmosphere, they’re only tempting the fates as they scrunch the blinders tighter. [...]
March 10th, 2009 at 12:46 am
The Plain Dealer would like to note that reports of our death are greatly exaggerated. Or, in the exact word of Publisher Terrance C.Z. Egger, “baseless.”
March 10th, 2009 at 3:53 am
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March 10th, 2009 at 11:46 am
[...] the list: 1. The Philadelphia Daily News 2. The Minneapolis Star Tribune 3. The Miami Herald 4. The Detroit [...]