If they would STOP their DIVISIVE, OBFUSCATING, OMITTING, LYING, AGENDA-PUSHING, WAR-PROMOTING, PROPAGANDIST WAYS then I would HAPPILY REST since I AM SICK OF THIS!!
Then again, there is as much of a chance of that happening as me catching a fart in the wind.
"Seattle newspaper ends print edition; Post-Intelligencer shifts to Web after no buyer is found" by Bloomberg News | March 17, 2009
NEW YORK - Hearst Corp. will run its final printed edition of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer today and shift the entire publication to the Web after failing to find a buyer for the money-losing newspaper.
They will be waiting for you, Globe, and I can see the move coming.
The New York-based publisher sought unsuccessfully to sell the Post-Intelligencer after the daily posted a $14 million loss last year. Hearst may close the San Francisco Chronicle if it can't negotiate cost-cutting concessions from its unions.
"They are the first major metropolitan newspaper to flip the switch and go online only," said Ken Doctor, an analyst with Outsell Inc. in Burlingame, Calif. "This is going to be an important model for people to watch, whether this can survive as a Web-only presence."
Since December, four newspaper publishers have filed for bankruptcy protection, including Tribune Co., and the owner of the Philadelphia Inquirer. E.W. Scripps Co. last month closed its Rocky Mountain News in Denver after failing to find a buyer and Gannett Co. said it will shutter the Tucson Citizen in Arizona if it can't sell it by March 21.
Hearst will cut about 145 newsroom jobs at the Post-Intelligencer, leaving the newspaper with 20 reporters and editors, said Paul Luthringer, a Hearst spokesman. Hearst is raising subscription prices and has considered trimming its page count to counter the accelerating decline in advertising sales, Steven Swartz, head of the newspaper division, said last week.
US newspapers shed 5,000 newsroom jobs in 2008 as ad revenue fell 16 percent, and 2009 "may be the worst year yet," according to a study released Sunday by the Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism. The New York Times Co. and Gannett Co. are selling assets and cutting jobs to help cope with ad declines.
:-)
Also see: Newspapers in a Slump
Hearst said it would terminate a joint operating agreement between the Post-Intelligencer and the Seattle Times in which the latter arranged advertising, printing, and distribution for both newspapers....
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DENVER - With backing from three entrepreneurs, staffers of the recently shuttered Rocky Mountain News plan to start an online news publication if they can get 50,000 paying subscribers by April 23 - what would have been the News' 150th anniversary....
There is so much out there. Good luck.
Related: Rocky Mountain High
The site would offer some news free, with advertising revenue footing part of the bill.
You get UNVARNISHED REPORTING HERE, folks!
Readers who buy subscriptions starting at $4.99 a month for a year's commitment would get extra features, including columns, interactive features, feeds to mobile devices, and customizable content.
If it is NOT FREE, I don't want it. I pay for enough lies.
"Great journalism can still be good business," said Kevin Preblud, one of the three entrepreneurs behind the venture. He owns a local service company.
Yeah, IF YOU TELL the TRUTH to people! You guys are OUT of BUSINESS because you LIE (or omit and push an agenda) ABOUT EVERYTHING EVERYDAY!!!!!
The E.W. Scripps Co. shut down the News last month, citing losses that reached $16 million last year. All three founders have roots in Denver. They said that although they never considered buying the News from Scripps, they couldn't imagine the newspaper dying.
Besides Preblud, the founders are Brad Gray, a founding partner of the executive search firm McAleer Gray, and cofounder of Wi-Fi company Wayport Inc.; and Benjamin Ray, who cofounded the digital marketing agency Xylem Digital and whose grandmother and father were both in journalism.
Ray said InDenverTimes.com wouldn't have to sink substantial resources into printing and distributing a traditional newspaper. Its budget, he said, would mostly go to the 30 former News writers, editors, and a cartoonist who would be on the staff.
Gray said it's clear successful newspapers will need a new financial model....
Does a model do a corpse any good?
The Denver Post is the only remaining major daily in print in Denver. Publisher and chairman William Dean Singleton was in a meeting and was not immediately available to comment on the announcement by InDenverTimes, according to his assistant.
Details on compensation at the new venture, how video and photography might be collected, and who would be hired as an editor have yet to be decided, but Gray said staffers could make a living off the new venture if it launches.--more--"
Related: The New MSM
