Decline of newspaper industry (part n)
Comments(0) This seems to be common knowledge everywhere but in our newspapers.
Denis Dunleavy (a professor of visual journalism and reporting) says: “In my newswriting classes I always start off the term asking how many students actually have a subscription to a daily newspaper. For the past few years, if a hand goes up, I get really excited.”
Arthur Sulzberger, owner, chairman and publisher of the NY Times: “I really don’t know whether we’ll be printing the Times in five years, and you know what? I don’t care either.”  via LiLoLe
You can appreciate his position when you learn that NYT has 1.5 million visits online daily and 1.1 million subscribers to the dead trees edition.
But still there are newspapers redesigning, changing formats and doing all sorts of things to keep themselves above the surface. Pointless if you ask me.
They should focus their attention on different ways to distribute content (online is just one option)Â as people are still looking for someone to aggregate content for them. That shouldn’t change in a while.
