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- badqat, on 01/14/2009, -1/+22I've watched in awe as newspapers have struggled with their circulation issues. And as they've taken resources away from their primary product to new products.
They believe it offers an opportunity for new revenue streams, but as local papers have approached me for advertising into these new publications, I divert away from the primary product if I go into the new product...because I've budgeted by vendor. Meaning all their effort has gotten them a total of zero increase in money from the advertising dollars I manage at best, and in some cases, a reduction as I pull back and invest in new media. - hbyrne, on 01/14/2009, -0/+14More than a bit ironic that a decent share of the popular items on digg are either generated by online outlets for newspapers, or by another site's pickup of something first produced by newspaper's website. There's a regular stream of items here that's generated off of Tribune content, many of which are pretty good. Unfortunately, their business model, whereby the breadth and depth of content that appears online is still largely supported by the ever-declining print franchise, appears to be in peril. The "print is dead" mantra may be accurate, but doesn't bode well in the near term for quality in-depth journalism.
- amprather, on 01/14/2009, -0/+12I can not understand this move by the Chicago Tribune. I don't want to use the whole "Print is Dead" mantra, but it is in decline. Everyone is in agreement on that, so why do you double your costs by putting out a second, different printed format of the SAME paper.
The Chicago Tribune would do better to focus more on its internet efforts. I would put money up that the Chicago Tribune gets more readers online than people that read the printed version. According to Alexa.com, it in the Top 1000 websites in the world and Top 300 websites in the US. - kigcoopa84, on 01/14/2009, -0/+5I thought they already put one out 7 days a week
- AmyVernon, on 01/14/2009, -0/+5What they're trying to do is kill the Chicago Sun-Times by going to a tabloid format, and capture those single-copy sales. People prefer tabloids in single-copy, b/c it's easier to read on the train. A lot of people still don't have full internet access on their phones or would prefer to read from a paper than from a teensy screen while they're being jostled around on a train. While newspapers really do need to focus on the internet, all the profit they earn still comes from the print editions; they can't just screw their print customers quite yet.
- lovemorgul, on 01/14/2009, -2/+6when Google buys power for its data centres the company factors in the theoretical cost of carbon emitted by the electricity generation.
- skoober, on 01/14/2009, -0/+4Silly. You're reading print, it's just printed on your monitor.
Print isn't dead, nor are newspapers. In 20 years, you'll be reading your newspaper on a single sheet of flexible lcd, that looks alot like a newspaper with a browser wrapped around it.
If anything, it's paper that's dead. - yocouchdigga, on 01/14/2009, -0/+4phone books are such a huge waste of resources, they should already be gone already.
- AmyVernon, on 01/14/2009, -0/+3uh, wrong article?
- PamMorris, on 01/14/2009, -0/+2There is a definite shift toward internet. I don't know about you but my attention span has become very short as I've had to rely increasingly on the internet to keep up with the world around me. I miss sitting down and reading a Sunday paper. Reading a story online provides you a quick snapshot of an issue or news item but you don't get context and that's a shame.
- inactive, on 01/14/2009, -0/+2Thanks for the random info.
- matthewcaylor, on 01/14/2009, -0/+2Print may be struggling, but "news" is far from going away. We may call them newspaper companies but in reality they are media companies...as with every transition period their will be shake ups and loss, but as they emerge I think we will still see a number of the same companies, changed, but still there delivering the news many of us rely on even when we do not recognize the source.
- voidvox0, on 01/14/2009, -0/+2its hard to read the net when you're sitting on the el on your way to work. i suppose ppl checking blackberries and their iphones are up but in chicago the majority of people are reading the morning paper.
- noblestrife, on 01/14/2009, -0/+2Speaking of true tabloids. . .
- clickmyface, on 01/15/2009, -0/+2GOOD! WE NEED THIS!
The guys in M.I.B used the tabloids as the best at really getting to the truth. Maybe now we'll find out what happened to that windmill in the UK. - sarahlarowe, on 01/15/2009, -0/+2I thought the RedEye was already the Trib's version of a tabloid--so now they're going to put out an even "trashier" version of the RedEye? Puh-leez. Save some trees and cull both the new tabloid and the RedEye and use that money to improve the original paper.
Chicago newspapers are in a sad state: the Trib's going under and the Sun-Times has been total trash for years now. - inactive, on 01/14/2009, -1/+2With so many other tabloids in print like the New York Slimes and Washington Compost, how ever with the refurbished Tribune compete?
- yocouchdigga, on 01/14/2009, -0/+1word.
- regeya, on 01/14/2009, -0/+1I know this isn't Fark, but THIS
- syntaxgs, on 01/14/2009, -0/+1Just FYI people Someone told me that Tabloids are really inaccuaet sources of info =P
I wouldent trust them at all O.o - killdashnine, on 01/14/2009, -0/+1What's a newspaper? A whole lot of crappy news that only retired people seem to care about wrapped up with a bunch of ads? Meh! It's time for a new model.
- iJessicaRabbit, on 01/14/2009, -2/+3I hope nothing happens to the Red Eye; it's the best way to start the morning..
- ClevelandBrown, on 01/14/2009, -0/+1I honestly cannot remember the last time I bought/read a newspaper. Everything that can be digital should go digital in this day and age.
- farcast, on 01/14/2009, -0/+1Hmm...maybe to save money they should only lay out one design instead of having to do two? Save time and man-hours!
- coreydoucorey, on 02/11/2009, -0/+1Amazing. sweet! http://manxl.org
- matthewcaylor, on 01/14/2009, -0/+1You know, you should take a moment to look around the pages you surf on the net...a whole lot of news surrounded by ads...strange how that works.
- WebmastuhB, on 01/15/2009, -0/+1The Chicago Tribune already is a rag of a tabloid. How will this be any different?
- chicagodigger, on 01/15/2009, -0/+1I wonder how many people here actually read the newspaper? It's easy to say the MSM is going downhill when you're exposure to it is the loud, blathering TV stuff. Pick up a newspaper - a GOOD one - and you'll be surprised that great, engaging and informative reporting is still being done. You just have to, you know, read it - but be careful, its more than a paragraph long.
- killdashnine, on 01/14/2009, -0/+1Sure ... ads everywhere. I scarcely pay attention to them, which is the unfortunate trend even online.
What I'm saying is that newspapers really are obsolete. Few people have time to read the paper start to finish, and it's a waste of paper. - inactive, on 01/15/2009, -0/+1Dead tree publishing is positively biblical in its backwardness.
- Daemastrius, on 01/15/2009, -0/+1ORLY?
- troye, on 01/15/2009, -0/+1Me personally, I like tabloid format newspaper compared to broadsheet. Broadsheet is annoying, and I like it when my newspaper is like a magazine.
- elTito, on 01/14/2009, -0/+1So, what exactly will set it apart from any other current MSM rag?
- intrepidDesign, on 01/14/2009, -0/+0If E-paper ever becomes a reality, and cheap enough to produce, I bet we will see a resurgence of the newspaper. If they were smart they would get together with the other companies and do a joint investment in the technology instead of reacting (slowly at that) to technology like the internet. Not easy to do though I guess when your on the edge of bankruptcy.
- leesw, on 01/15/2009, -1/+1Still just a liberal media mouth piece. Socialism in print. Maybe that's why publications like this are losing subscribers.
- and303, on 01/14/2009, -1/+1Goody...just when I was running out of toilet paper!
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