Jim Harris

newspapers

What’s Really Killing Print Journalism

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Print journalism is changing fundamentally. Three dramatic events last week make the point: On October 18, Newsweek magazine announced it will become a digital only publication in 2013, ending 80 years in print.The same week, John Stackhouse, Editor-in-Chief ofThe Globe and Mail, announced that the paper will launch a paywall for its articles. You will get to read the first 10 articles a month for free and then have to pay for the remainder. Finally Huffington Post Canada announced it has become Canada's largest national news site, with a record 3.9 million monthly unique visitors. In the US HuffPost's traffic has trumped the New York Time's.[...] … [Read more...] about What’s Really Killing Print Journalism

Newspapers are suffering

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It’s easy to blame craigslist, but the real culprit is economic short-sightednessFor newspapers it has been death by a thousand cuts: American readership has been falling by more than 700,000 a year since 2000, according to the Newspaper Association of America (NAA), and revenue was already down when the recession came along and shot another body blow to advertising income.[...] … [Read more...] about Newspapers are suffering