Numbers don’t lie

Newspapers are in decline. It’s a fact.
This is the first paragraph from a Washington Post article entitled “The accelerating decline of newspapers by Frank Ahrens:
“U.S. newspaper circulation has hit its lowest level in seven decades, as papers across the country lost 10.6 percent of their paying readers from April through September, compared with a year [...]

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How Newspapers Are Killing Themselves

We can dub it newspaper suicide when newspapers do things that are guaranteed to reduce subscription rates, and I don’t mean by endorsing an unpopular candidate or showing bias on their pages. It is by cannibalizing their own print readers.
Let me give you a case in point about my local newspaper, the fabled Washington Post. [...]

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The death of newspapers

We’ve spoken about it before on this blog, and the bad news for newspapers continues to come in.  As you probably know, the Rocky Mountain News, Colorado’s oldest newspaper, ceased publication as of Friday (Feb. 27). Add to that, the continual bad news concerning all print media, and you know that the outlook for newspapers [...]

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