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Pittsburgh-area newspapers cut staff, suspend print editions as pandemic guts ad revenues
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| Mar 23, 2020 2:03 PM
| Joyce Gannon
Posted on 03/24/2020 2:14:32 PM PDT by Red Badger
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a harsh toll on news media in the Pittsburgh region including layoffs, suspension of print editions and, in at least one case, permanent closure.
All of the moves are tied to a significant loss of advertising revenues for publishing outlets in the last couple weeks as businesses were shuttered, and sports and cultural events came to a grinding halt.
Trib Total Media on Monday combined its two print editions the Westmoreland edition based in Greensburg, and the Valley News Dispatch based in Tarentum into one edition saying it is confronting serious losses during the coronavirus pandemic.
The publishing company also laid off staff on Friday.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; US: Ohio; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: greensburg; tarentum
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See? There IS a bright side!.....................
To: Red Badger
Print journalism is dying? Let’s blame the flu. Or whatever.
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posted on
03/24/2020 2:15:50 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
To: Red Badger
Newspapers spread the anti-America virus.
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posted on
03/24/2020 2:17:37 PM PDT
by
Jim Robinson
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
03/24/2020 2:18:34 PM PDT
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
("Progressives" (elitist Communists) "Love you to death".)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
03/24/2020 2:18:47 PM PDT
by
G Larry
(There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
To: Red Badger
What will bums use as blankets now????
To: Red Badger
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posted on
03/24/2020 2:20:12 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: Red Badger
Isn’t this similar to what happened right at the beginning of the Great Depression. I remember hearing a story, that the non investment class noticed that papers were closing or merging. That was the first big sign on Main Street - People were in breadlines a few weeks later.
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posted on
03/24/2020 2:20:41 PM PDT
by
Codeflier
(FearRepublic.com - Demanding even more socialism than Democratic Underground - Amazing to witness it)
To: ClearCase_guy
Yes, we know newspapers have been in serious trouble long before this virus. Maybe it will be the final nail in the coffin for some.
To: Jim Robinson
Especially big NE ones.......................
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posted on
03/24/2020 2:22:00 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(If people were to God like dogs are to people, the world would be a really great place..............)
To: Red Badger
I don’t like the sound of that. People need butt wipe and there’s little to be found in the stores.
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posted on
03/24/2020 2:22:16 PM PDT
by
MayflowerMadam
("For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind." 2 Ti)
To: Codeflier
I thought the run on the banks was the sign.....................
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posted on
03/24/2020 2:22:34 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(If people were to God like dogs are to people, the world would be a really great place..............)
To: MayflowerMadam
LOL!.................Birds gotta poop too!............
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posted on
03/24/2020 2:23:04 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(If people were to God like dogs are to people, the world would be a really great place..............)
To: Dilbert San Diego
I’d love to see print newspapers go away.
My top three to see go away are The Charlotte Observer, Rock Hill Herald, and the mind numbing State paper here in Columbia.
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posted on
03/24/2020 2:27:35 PM PDT
by
wally_bert
(Spend like you were going to the electric chair!)
To: Red Badger
I still think that was for those primarily in the investment class. I just remember a documentary I watched as a child, and some old woman was talking about how her father no longer had a newspaper in some small town. Then they were soon getting handouts for food. It also turned into a huge FDR praisefest.
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posted on
03/24/2020 2:28:07 PM PDT
by
Codeflier
(FearRepublic.com - Demanding even more socialism than Democratic Underground - Amazing to witness it)
To: abb
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posted on
03/24/2020 2:30:52 PM PDT
by
MrEdd
(Caveat Emptor)
To: G Larry
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posted on
03/24/2020 2:31:40 PM PDT
by
wally_bert
(Spend like you were going to the electric chair!)
To: Red Badger
Problem is the Trib-Review is the conservative paper, while the Post-Gazette is MSM.
To: Red Badger
I don't see their services as essential ones, what with the
Downer Debbie articles over recent weeks.
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posted on
03/24/2020 2:40:38 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Hi! My name is Larry, and I'm a COVID-19FearPhobicAholic. Hi Larry, welcome. We've been there.)
To: Red Badger
We dont see the point of putting papers out that no one will see, he said. Why not? They put out papers that no one believed for years.
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posted on
03/24/2020 2:40:40 PM PDT
by
Opinionated Blowhard
(When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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