Birmingham, Mobile and Huntsville to publish three days a week

I think I mentioned this earlier in the thread, but this is happening. Not sure if all of the papers are involved, but the Jersey cluster for sure will be going down this path.

 

Those aren't all Gannett papers. I know Gannett has five or six papers in Jersey, but Harrisburg isn't Gannett and neither is the Staten Island paper. Obviously, the Star-Ledger isn't Gannett either.

They are likely to do this in New Jersey, Louisiana, Tennessee and Wisconsin.

 

Asbury Park, New Jersey. Home of the late great Bam Bam Bigelow. [crossthread]
In all seriousness, I think all of this consolidation is being done in the name of saving money, but it's going to kill off readership. People pick up newspapers when they want to read about what's going on locally. They don't go to a Web site to find it (or I don't think they do, maybe I'm wrong).
I know I'm just out here raging against the dying of the light, but I do think newspapers (and not just newspapers' Web sites) can still have a place in today's mass media world.

 

Mizzou, the papers I listed are Advance Publication products. Gannett has six papers in jersey.
Again, the blueprint is there and I'd be surprised if its not followed.

 

Gannett also has Westchester Rockland in nearby New York, not to mention the paper in Delaware.

 

What are you talking about here? Pagination hubs? Or reducing publication frequency?

 

Publication frequency.

 

My bad... I definitely agree with you... I think any state where the same company has several papers in the same state or area they're going to eventually do what they're doing in Alabama.

It's really scary to see what's happening in Alabama and think that this is something that is just starting...

 

Fine. Just kill the whole damn industry while you're at it.

I respectfully disagree. Management is going to see what a disaster it is and no one else will want to go off the cliff.

 

I wish I agreed with you... Management is going to see that they're only publishing on the three days where the papers make money and they're going to line up to do the same thing.

 

Can you provide any evidence that the senior managers in the newspaper industry could see the difference between success and failure?

 

Under the proposed model, guess which major events would have been missed in print...



but all those people without power, internet and heck, homes, could have found a way to see the scope of the damage, right?