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Die, You Fucking Enemies Of The People: Already on the ropes, newspaper business faces uncertain future because of coronavirus Vide
PostSubject: Die, You Fucking Enemies Of The People: Already on the ropes, newspaper business faces uncertain future because of coronavirus   Die, You Fucking Enemies Of The People: Already on the ropes, newspaper business faces uncertain future because of coronavirus Icon_minitimeThu Apr 02, 2020 8:17 am

... Some have speculated that the coronavirus pandemic will be the death knell for alternative weeklies. The Nieman Journalism Lab ran a story this month with the headline, “‘Total annihilation’: Coronavirus may just be the end for many alt-weeklies.”
Nieman, the Columbia Journalism Review, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Atlantic, the New Yorker and several others are all weighing in on the fate of the newspaper industry in general.

Most of it is not optimistic.
Athough not related to the coronavirus outbreak, the Idaho Statesman’s parent company, McClatchy, is in the midst of bankruptcy proceedings. In my former hometown, Rochester, New York, City Newspaper, an alt-weekly, suspended its print operations because of the outbreak. The Sacramento News & Review abruptly shut down and laid off its staff. Adams Publishing, owner of the Idaho Press in the Treasure Valley, where I was previously the editor, announced 30-hour work weeks for its employees, essentially a 25% pay cut for everyone.

https://www.idahostatesman.com/opinion/from-the-opinion-editor/article241622981.html

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