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hay rick

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9. The people that pay reporters' salaries evidently don't think it's a profitable market.

Reply to 3Hotdogs (Reply #8)

Sun Feb 2, 2025, 03:23 PM

Feb 2

My sense is that things like statehouse coverage were loss leaders for newspapers. They did it because it was expected of a paper that aspired to be the "paper of record" for the state. There was a sense of civic obligation. Newspapers now are small parts of cost-cutting, profit-seeking chains that place profit over civic duty. I suspect the new reality causes bleeding ulcers for the dinosaurs left over from the print era.

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The Star-Ledger's last print edition came out today, Feb 2, 2025 [View all] Wicked Blue Feb 2 OP

End of an era. hay rick Feb 2 #1

I agree with you. Wicked Blue Feb 2 #3

A sad day. The Star-Ledger was my go-to newspaper when I lived in New Jersey. LoisB Feb 2 #2

Our whole country was created in the context of printed media and Newspapers IbogaProject Feb 2 #4

It's now, almost useless. Lots of articles about people getting killed in accidents and fires in apartment buildings. 3Hotdogs Feb 2 #5

Unfortunately, I don't believe there are enough readers to sustain that kind of coverage. hay rick Feb 2 #6

Not so. The votes in the statehouse and Congress are listed individually on significant issues. 3Hotdogs Feb 2 #8

The people that pay reporters' salaries evidently don't think it's a profitable market. hay rick Feb 2 #9

The Star-Ledger used to be a moneymaker with tons of advertising Wicked Blue Feb 2 #10

They have prospered. hay rick Feb 2 #11

The Newhouse publications have nothing to go with Gannett Wicked Blue Feb 3 #12

Thanks. My memory doesn't always serve me well. hay rick Feb 3 #13

The online version is pathetic Wicked Blue Feb 2 #7