Posted on 12/02/2009 1:19:43 PM PST by Pyro7480
Jonathan Slevin, acting publisher and president of the Washington Times, outlined a new plan for the beleaguered newspaper and spoke of "significant staff reductions" at a meeting this afternoon.
Staff are receiving notices at the meeting, but it's unclear who will be laid off at this time. However, management is putting the number at around 40 percent, according to sources.
A release went out after the meeting began that outlines some of the changes taking place in the first quarter of 2010.
The news operation, according to the release, will focus on what it considers core strengths—“exclusive reporting and in-depth national political coverage, enterprise and investigative reporting, geo-strategic and national security news, and cultural coverage based on traditional values.”
There will be “controlled-market local circulation,” with the local print edition free in certain areas of Washington with a premium price for home-delivery. “No-cost distribution will focus on targeted audiences in branches of the federal government as well as at other key institutions,” the release said, although there will be single-copy sales in newspaper boxes and select retailers.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
if i had to subscribe to a non-local paper that’d be the one
Small money-losing conservative paper in a leftwing market.
I wonder how badly the EXAMINER hurt them?
I would have loved to see the WashTimes & Investors Business Daily merge into a National Times or something. Could have been epic in 20 major markets.
Yeah, that dinosaur media knife cuts both ways.
Within ten years, I do not think that there will be any actual newspapers printed on newsprint available in this country.
yep
I wish a group of conservatives/patriots would buy that paper and go national.
Kind of rough for Washington Times to be taking a hit like that.
Now, if the Washington Post would only take an equivalent hit....
*Unless heavily subsidized by government
One thing to always remember. Newspapers are not in the “news” business. They are in the business of putting advertisements in front of potential customers.
If they cannot execute that function, they go away.
The emergence of e-book readers such as the Nook or Kindle will keep papers alive in terms of subscriptions, but I believe that the printing will be very limited. I wouldn't be surprised to see the different subsidiaries of the NYT or Gannett print only a small amount of papers for special order, with Kindle owners buying the electronic version from the "newspaper's" website.
Still, the newspaper is a thing of the past, and in a world that operates hour-by hour, minute-by-minute, no one is going to bother reading yesterday's news, when the Internet provides things much more prompt manner.
“Within ten years, I do not think that there will be any actual newspapers printed on newsprint available in this country.”
The daily papers may disappear, but there will still be some form printed, so Legal Notice requirements can be met.
Ever wonder why the lib econuts never ever targeted major newspapers for all the chemicals (at least color inks), trees ground up only to be thrown away by almost everyone after reading, all the bleaching chemicals to whiten the paper, all the trucks belching to process the trees and distribute the newspapers, all the electricity used to run the presses and paper mills...
Ever wonder why they didn’t picket the papers to go paperless? It’s not like they’d be physically assaulted by the wimps, they aren’t muslims who’ll go ape on your ass.
Just made me think of fanatic muslims as being known vicious pit bulls. Moderates are pit bulls that have yet to snap and turn on you, you just don’t know when.
All print media is suffering. I wonder who is pumping money into the Weekly Standard? They are hemorrhaging gallons of red ink!
Rupert started it but it now belongs to the same company that does The Examiner.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Weekly-Standard-sold-to-Washington-Examiner-parent-company-48275582.html
Weekly Standard acquired by Washington Examiner parent company
Do they have a way for people outside of D.C. to subscribe, and if so, does anyone know the price of an annual subscription?
You can't charge for advocacy. If the Washington Post paired their leftist reporters with conservative reporters from the Washington Times, the end product just might be balanced journalism. That they can charge for.
Landfills full of newspapers...
They home deliver daily all the way out to Harford County Maryland.
We have had a mail subscription for about 8 years now, back when it was .25 a copy. It really is a fabulous newspaper and worth every penny. I read the Philly Inq for the comics and tv listings only, but just about every article in the times with the exception of the sports section. They did have two pages of movie reviews at one time but have eliminated that.
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