Posted on March 11, 2009 by sportslifer
The newspaper industry continues in full free-fall mode, with shutdowns, layoffs and cutbacks…and more rumors of impending doom every day.
On the heels of the Rocky Mountain News closing, the Seattle Post-Intelligencier is said to be next on the list.
TIME, a magazine in jeopardy judging by the lack of advertising and shrinking size of weekly issues, [...]
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Posted on February 27, 2009 by sportslifer
Today, the Rocky Mountain News printed its final edition. Just two months shy of 150 years of continuous operation, the presses have stopped forever at Colorado’s oldest newspaper.
It’s the latest sad symbol of an industry that is slowly dying. In this age of instant Internet access and wireless connections everywhere, people are turning away from [...]
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