... When it comes to election coverage, two-thirds of Americans don’t think of newspapers as a primary source for news.
But you can bet your green eyeshade that this would come as stunning news to the platoons of journalists who believe every edition of every newspaper should include a heaping helping of politics.
... The abrupt rejection of newspapers as a primary political news vehicle coincides, not surprisingly, with the rapid rise of the Internet as an increasingly popular source of information. ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/23/business/media/23paper.html?_r=1&ref=business&oref=slogin
April 23, 2007
More Staff Cuts Expected at Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times
By STEPHANIE SAUL
The Tribune Company is expected to announce staffing reductions as early as today at its flagship Chicago Tribune as well as its largest-circulation newspaper, The Los Angeles Times, as revenue in the newspaper industry declines.
While no official announcement had been made about the cuts, reports in both newspapers late last week, citing informants they did not identify, said they were imminent and would be carried out mostly through voluntary buyout packages.
The editor of The Los Angeles Times, James O’Shea, confirmed yesterday that an announcement of cutbacks at his newspaper was to come today.
“The whole industry is going through this,” said Mr. O’Shea, reached by telephone yesterday in Washington where he had attended the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner Saturday night. “There are staff reductions everywhere you look. Unfortunately, we aren’t exempt from the laws of economic nature.”
Many newspaper companies, including Tribune, have reduced their staffs in recent years in an effort to cut costs in response to declining revenue. A shift toward online advertising and away from print media has hurt ad sales at newspapers.
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