Friday, March 20, 2009

Le Monde online only due to strike

A labor strike in France prevented the physical circulation of today's issue of Le Monde, but the full electronic version was online.
En raison d'un mouvement de grève, le quotidien Le Monde daté du 20 mars ne sera pas disponible en kiosque. Retrouvez gratuitement le journal électronique.

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Seattle 'paper' drops paper

The Web claims a 'victim.'

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer became the first big American newspaper (2008 circulation 117,572) to succumb to the rigors of printing a daily product, and find a refuge -- and perhaps prosperity -- in the new technology.

It ran its last copy today and henceforth will be a strictly online enterprise.

As I have noted in class many times, the future is bleak for the newspaper industry, but bright for journalism.

The P-I, founded in 1863 as the Seattle Gazette, is believed to be the city's oldest paper. In 1921 William Randolph Hearst bought it and it continues to be a Hearst Corp. enterprise. The company put it up for sale early this year because it was losing. Failing to secure a buyer, it decided to stop printing.

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