PODCAST: March of the Undead Newspapers
Friday, November 15, 2013
At this point, the New England newspaper scene is starting to resemble one long George Romero movie.
Yes, plenty of newspapers are up walking around, reporting the news, posting stories to the Web, plopping onto front porches. But the trouble is, only some of them are displaying signs of actual brain activity in their headquarters and a pulse in their newsrooms. The rest increasingly resemble a parade of zombies staggering mindlessly in circles.
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In a column entitled, The smartest guys in media give up on print, Alan Mutter, the former editor of San Francisco Chronicle, writes "For all the corporate-speak accompanying the dramatic restructurings of Twenty-First Century Fox, Time Warner and Tribune Co., the simple reason these diversified media giants are jettisoning their publishing assets is that their leaders fear for the future of print."
Throughout New England and across the country there is a dramatic decline in the print newspaper business.
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