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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.
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.
Read also:
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.
Read also:
- David Horsey's "The end and a new beginning"
- Joel Connelly's "Online-only P-I will be a journalism adventure"
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