For what it's worth it appears that the Ann Arbor News is going down. The paper will become smaller and all copy, graphics and print jobs are being transferred to Grand Rapids. It's a shame that the Washtenaw County Community can no longer support a major newspaper.
HuronBob Wrote:For what it's worth it appears that the Ann Arbor News is going down. The paper will become smaller and all copy, graphics and print jobs are being transferred to Grand Rapids. It's a shame that the Washtenaw County Community can no longer support a major newspaper.
That is a shame. Pity that they never seemed to make it east of US-23 to cover sports.
HuronBob Wrote:For what it's worth it appears that the Ann Arbor News is going down. The paper will become smaller and all copy, graphics and print jobs are being transferred to Grand Rapids. It's a shame that the Washtenaw County Community can no longer support a major newspaper.
Source?
You won't find much sympathy for the A2 News in this forum.
That's too bad, guess I'll have to find something else to wrap around my trash.
This should not be a huge surprise:
1). I've discussed that the A2 News was under financial pressures and trying to cut costs. I've speculated that reporters' jobs would be cut or not filled through attrition and we wouldn't be seeing Jeff Arnold travel all over the midwest the way that Amy Whitesall did when she covered EMU.
2). As support for this statement that even the publishing icon, Washington Post, is now LOSING money on its newspaper operation. They have been doing buyouts, etc.
There are a lot of industries which are hurting. Newspapers are an industry which is hurting but folks don't talk about.
emu steve Wrote:This should not be a huge surprise:
1). I've discussed that the A2 News was under financial pressures and trying to cut costs. I've speculated that reporters' jobs would be cut or not filled through attrition and we wouldn't be seeing Jeff Arnold travel all over the midwest the way that Amy Whitesall did when she covered EMU.
2). As support for this statement that even the publishing icon, Washington Post, is now LOSING money on its newspaper operation. They have been doing buyouts, etc.
There are a lot of industries which are hurting. Newspapers are an industry which is hurting but folks don't talk about.
This has been coming for years independent of the current fiscal mess. Hard copy papers demise were sealed when the internet became widely available. Journalism is alive and well. It just won't be in print anymore.
This from an EMU Journalism grad 02'.
W'Eagle:
Agree 100%.
One thing recently which has made things worse is the struggling housing markets. Newspapers used to do a lot of classified advertising for houses for sale. That's changing.
I think a lot of newspapers were very arrogant, thinking that they are more 'respectable' and 'professional' than other online journalists. You can see some of this arrogance come out in discussions regarding blogs. While there is always truth on both sides of the argument, i think this arrogance helped the downfall of a lot of print media. If you look at the Free Press and the News, up until 2 years ago their websites were so crummy I didn't bother reading them. That put them far behind the proverbial 8 ball. I have a lot of thoughts on this (i'm disappointed because i love reading printed newspapers) but i spare you an unnecessary soap box speech.