Today was the last issue of the Rocky Mountain News - a really sad day - the paper is just 55 days shy of it's 150yr anniversary (it was around for 17 years before Colo became a state). I'm not sure why they closed, instead of declared bankruptcy ... and I'm not sure why they're closing down instead of the Post (because I don't know anyone who likes the Post better). But in any event, this has got to be the most prestigious paper to close down (something like 6 Pulitzers since 2000). There's rumblings that the Philadelphia Inquirer and the San Fransisco Chronicle may be doomed as well.
Please comment if you have any idea how newspapers will survive.
3 comments:
Visions of the Baltimore Sun in in Season 5. Sad to see her go.
They won't. Neither will civilization. What will power the delivery trucks and printing press when the oil and coal stomp coming?
I'd be interested in seeing return to local group story telling.
I agree with Syd O on the oral traditions of story telling, but I honestly think papers give too much info away for free online. I only buy a paper on weekends (Weekend Journal and Sunday Times) for the joy of a Sunday morning with a paper, coffee, and CBS Sunday Morning with Chuck Osgood. Other than that, there's no need. That new thingy that allows people to download periodicals to a giant Iphone may be a way in which papers can begin to realize new revenue, but small local papers ARE doomed. The Carmi Times, my hometown paper, is now only printed four days/week and will likely be a weekly by the end of 2009. It's a shame.
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