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leave a commentGreat graphic; fascinating research. So Wall Street Journal is the only leading paper up in revenue. What did Rupert know? Well, maybe not so much, since his metro flagship, NY Post, has the largest annual drop of all the papers listed! (And, contrasting WSJ, it publishes to the lowest demographic common denominator.)
All four of the biggest publishing groups have seen their stock value drop nearly to zero? Could this be right? Anybody want to buy some big bundles of debt and aggravation?
Wow Wall Street Journal only newspaper increasing circulation. That’s insane!
I think it’s because they have not only the business community behind it (for the most part) but professors push it hard at colleges. It was because a professor that I actually am a subscriber.
I understand why things are moving online, but one thing I do like is seeing all sorts of news by thumbing through the paper. If I go to FoxNews.com or WSJ.com I hardly look at even a quarter of the stories. It’s just good to diversify your knowledge.
WTF does this have to do with Mint.com and personal finance? It’s not like we’re investing in newspapers…
no newspapers used to report the news not make the news that is the problem they now want to form your opinion for you instead of letting you come up with your own conclusions.
People need to stop and think about where the news actually comes from. Yes the Internet is faster/cheaper/better, but there aren’t a lot of people on the web actually doing investigative journalism. You don’t see blogs or twitter feeds that actually have original investigative journalism – they link to newspaper sites and the like that actually do the work.
Look at the Telegraph in the UK – they broke the expenses story that changed the political landscape forever. If you look at the ABC numbers in Europe, the daily numbers year over year are about flat… some are down 10%, some are up 10%
Newspapers are changing as well – The Globe and Mail in Canada just won an Emmy for new ways of thinking about journalism.
American newspapers may be dying… but not elsewhere in the world.
No, the news comes from people, anyone with a grade school education can report on it. Investigative journalism will come from TV news sources only, since most online sources won’t have the budget to fund it. We will still have all of the same kinds of news and reporting, it will simply be delivered a different way.
The newspapers will all die, it is a waste of paper and printing, a mess to read, and when it can be delivered for free online what is the point? None, which is why their sales are all going to zero. The real question is why so suddenly in the last year?
This is sad, I read the newspaper all the time as a kid after school to keep myself up on the world and so I could have knowledge of what was going on outside my little corner of the planet. Looks like Murdoch is doing fine with Dow Jones, though, that’s too bad as I think he’s been what’s bad for news becoming more about making money and pandering to demographics than reporting news.
You’re only looking at big metro dailies. Where those fail, often several hyperlocal newspapers pop up in their places.
Many midsize community papers are surviving; though that doesn’t answer the question about who is going to do the real, international, investigative journalism in the U.S. We know it’s not TV.
Good point. Hyper-local news is an emerging trend that is well worth watching.
Many newspapers have facilitated their own demise by having on line versions of their paper. While they think it’s necessary to have an on line presence, it’s actually accelerated their downfall. Why subscribe when I can read it for free on line? The papers still haven’t figured that out yet.
If they have an comprehensive on line paper, they should charge for it.
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We didn’t “make the news.” We reported the news. Pshaw.
Hi!
Not knowing where to write i figured i’d just drop a comment here.
I translated this infographic into spanish, you can see it reposted here (proper credit given but I’m willing to expand if needed) -> http://marcabeta.com/2009/09/infografia-la-muerte-de-los-medios-impresos-en-los-eua/
I also hold a PSD file with these texts and images which I’d be glad to deliver. Just write me an email mauricio@pastrana.co.uk if interested.
Cheers,
/mp
Thanks for giving our spanish speaking readers their own version of our infographic.
I wouldn’t cry for this industry. Having been a manager in the newspaper business for the last 15 years I can tell you they killed themselves.
Their first troubles came in the early 90’s when the digital workflow came to the industry and drastically cut the need for floor staff. But as late last year I was in several major metro’s that still employed 3-4 copy editors per desk… a complete waste of money and time. One major NY daily still has no photo access to it’s copy desk to this day– editors must request printed copy from the photo desk…
I was a manager in a former Knight-Ridder property that had at least 25 “no work” union positions due to system upgrades and lithographers had nothing to do… but we still paid them.
Now with digital cameras How many hours a day do you think a staff photographer works (not one in the field)? maybe three or four– but we pay them for all day… and if you think they can take a picture with a a 500 dollar camera… HA! I personally signed off on cameras for 3500 to 5000 dollars! and this was OK was the Managing Editor despite my argument that the quality of print in only several hundred colors on recycled paper negates any quality these cameras might add. Oh yea– and the 50k worth of “color correcting” software they “needed”– any correction was negated by the color system at the press– which imposes it’s own color rules on ink. No one cared about these costs…
I was a manager in a former Knight Ridder property that had at least 25 “no work” union positions due to system upgrades and lithographers had nothing to do… but we still paid them to show up for years.
I could go to any major newspaper and put it out the door with 1/4 of the staff they employ– Why do you need a photog and and a reporter— why can’t one person do the job? Why do you need three sets of editors for a news story (4 if you include the photo desk)?
Oh yea- then the Internet came– How many meetings did I sit in with people who didn’t even use email spending millions on their internet business plan— out of sheer arrogance these folks believed because they ran a cash cow of a business for years they could actually devise a new business strategy… this from people who hadn’t have to change a business model for a hundred years… from a staff that cried about working on terminals instead of typewriters (oh and went on strike btw)… then cried again when we moved from terminals to PCs (any one know how to use a mouse?).
I personally watched the arrogance and ignorance of their executives fight and lose to the internet in the nineties and then turn around and try to get on the bandwagon way too late.
The world will survive with out them– don’t worry….
I really loved reading my Sunday paper here in Maryland but over the last few years they have laid off or fired the local reporters so all that is left is regurgitated info you get either online or on TV.
The size of the paper also went down so much that you really didn’t feel that you were getting your monies worth when you did buy it.
It’s really a shame though that most papers are going under.
I like what Executor said about free content online. The Wall Street Journal is one of the only ones I have seen that only provide some articles for free, while “locking” a lot of other articles. This makes a lot more sense because people will become frustrated and likely will subscribe if they want all the content. It’s really convenient too because you get all access to their site plus the paper delivered.
Most persons stop purchasing the newspaper because of the online version but there are informations that are in the newspaper that are not online. I used to purchase my paper every day but now I have stop after realizing how much I spend per year for newspaper I said no way. Then I started reading the online version. I believe that most persons during this recession is cutting back and so the first to be drop is the purchases of newspaper.
No point in keeping something alive just for tradition if it comprises the wasteful cost of paper, printing, and distribution, especially if we look at the carbon footprint that each of us are trying to reduce.
Hmm, where are NewsCorp’s stocks?
And where did you get your info to this very nice infographic?
“Minneapolis Star”? The Star Tribune hasn’t been called the Minneapolis Star since 1939…
I once sat in a meeting where a newspaper exec arrogantly referred to his paper as the 800 lb guerrilla in the room.
I guess they are the 600 lb guerrilla now.
Nitpick: You title it “America’s Top 25 Newspapers”, but you only list 24.
I JUST CAN’T LIVE
(WITHOUT MY DAILY SNAILPAPER)
O life is just one long newspaper caper…
I just can’t live without my daily snailpaper…
“Crash blossoms” here …atomic typos there….
O where would I be, without my dear snailpaper?
Maybe you know him, that old workhorse Bradlee…
Ben’s the one who sidelined Tricky Dick – ee…
O Woodward and Bernstein of Watergate fame…
There’s nothing better than that newspaper game!
O life is just one long newspaper caper
I just can’t live without my daily snailpaper
“Crash blossoms” here…
atomic typos there…
O where would I be without my dear snailpaper?
I think you know Bill Keller too…
He runs the Times and knows old from new….
– (media that is)….
Maureen Dowd to the left of him, …
Dave Brooks to the right…
If it’s fit to print, it’s in the New York Times tonight!
O life is just one long newspaper caper
I just can’t live without my daily snailpaper
“Crash blossoms” here… atomic typos there
O where would I be without my dear snailpaper?
Now there’s Alex Beam at the Boston Globe…
He doesn’t pull punches and he’s really quite bold…
The son of a diplomat, he’s travelled — literally — the Globe!
The Globe is a snailpaper that’ll never grow old…
O life is just one long newspaper caper
I just can’t live without my daily snailpaper
“Crash blossoms” here… atomic typos there
O where would I be without my dear snailpaper?
In Chicago, there’s Steinberg, Neil with a hat…
He’s a serious writer who never falls flat…
Snailpapers help the Windy City un-wind…
My kind of town, it’s a newpaper — mine!
O life is just one long newspaper caper
I just can’t live without my daily snailpaper
“Crash blossoms” here ….atomic typos there
O where would I be without my dear snailpaper?
L.A. used to print the invincible Her-Ex…
Reporters in their cars dine on savory Tex-Mex…
If you’re going to Hollywood, read the L.A. Times…
Snailpapers for sale on Hollywood and Vine.
O life is just one long newspaper caper…
I just can’t live without my daily snailpaper…
“Crash blossoms” here …atomic typos there…
O where would I be, without my dear snailpaper?
Miami’s a Herald, and D.C.’s a Post….
Boulder’s a Camera and Walter Winchell’s a ghost
So let’s save our papers, preserve them in print
Call them snailpapers, LET DRUDGE WORD MINT!
O life is just one long newspaper caper..
I just can’t live without my daily snailpaper..
“Crash blossoms” here, atomic typos there..
O where would I be without my dear snailpaper?
O life is just one long newspaper caper..
I just can’t live without my daily snailpaper…
“Crash blossoms” here, atomic typos there..
O where would I be without my dear snailpaper?
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