Detroit newspapers losing "daily" tag?

That sounds a bit early.

 

I wonder how much the bean counters are saving by doing this? And how money ad money they are losing?

On one hand, they are still printing the paper 7 days a week, so production costs haven't gone away. Neither have newsroom costs, if, as they say, they aren't cutting staff. So the only place they are saving is on delivery, right? Lay off a few carriers.

Wonder what sort of economics this adds up to?

 

This is hilarious. Gannett is speeding up its master plan to go all Internet.
Get ready for the mass set of newspapers to follow. Staffs will be slashed 2/3s within the next 2 years at all papers. You wait.
It's officially time to GET OUT if you've been on the fence.
Cmon parttimers and citizen journalists. We need ya.

The disintegration of this business is mind boggling. They can't sell ads on the internet but they've been pushing the internet. Should give the 10 a.m. meeting people some stuff to discuss. They'll still have their jobs. Good luck to you keeping your parttimers and citizen journalists in line. Good luck working all night as well to make sure their copy is readable.
Journalism? It's fast food now, folks. 8 bucks an hour workers, come on down. This is the start of papers going online only. WOW.

 

you really are jealous about being skipped over for those 10 a.m. meetings, aren't ya?

 

Maybe they print fewer copies on off days and save a little on ink and paper, that's about it. The carriers are the ones getting screwed. You still have to pay the guy who runs single copy routes.

 

Connie Coupon-clipper?

 

On the "bright" side for the freep, Mitchie's Dreams Deferred starts tomorrow... :

 

I'll believe it's plural when it happens

 

That's just not true, dools. Lots of news happens in the early-morning hours for L.A. Just this week, Bush made his big auto bailout announcement at 6 a.m. my time. (Of course, I was still up and watched it live on CNN.)

The L.A. Times, before it was shredded by Tribune and Zell, was a major player in national news. I would definitely be interested in the LAT's take on this news at 8 a.m. But with just a paper product, I'd have to wait about 21 hours to get that coverage.

When it comes to breaking news, paper products just don't make sense anymore.

 

It doesn't so much matter what the New York papers have at 8, it's all about when they go live. If they put all their info up at 5 am. Web guys can get it up in L.A. before their folks wake up. As opposed to reading it at 5 am local time and scrambling to get the latest story up

 

Good post, Captain. And I agree is the way we're all heading.

However, here's our problem: We don't have a single person on staff who can design an animated, interactive, gif or audio ad for our site.

Until the suits pay up for an ad builder of this type, we're screwed and losing ground.

 

My parents got in insert with from the neighborhood home owners association today about getting a bulk drop off of newspapers to the subdivision on days where home delivery won't be provided by the Freep.

From there, the current paper delivery person will deliver the papers house by house for a nominal fee. So now, the delivery person saves her job and makes money off delivering the product. The newspaper company however, still has to pay to drop it off at the sub division and boxes. So I question how much they are making.

Moreover, the monthly cost of a 3 day newspaper subscription (thursday, saturday, sunday) is not a good deal whatsoever.

It is something like $12.99 per month. It a bit more per month for the current 7 day plan, but not anything near $25 per month.

So why didn't they at least try charging more for the newspaper? Now, the carrier is going to make money. This is going to be very interesting.