Comments on: What has caused the demise of the Newspaper? http://www.mediainfidel.com/2009/03/what-has-caused-the-demise-of-the-newspaper.html The Political and Cultural Musings of a Media Junky Sun, 18 Apr 2010 17:46:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Jeff Morgan http://www.mediainfidel.com/2009/03/what-has-caused-the-demise-of-the-newspaper.html/comment-page-1#comment-1997 Jeff Morgan Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:47:48 +0000 http://www.mediainfidel.com/?p=367#comment-1997 Hey Tom. Thanks for the comment. You certainly know more about UK print media than I do, but these dynamics you mention -- less advertising revenue brought on by recession and increased internet competition -- are playing a role in the plight of newspapers in the US. Compared to the recent past though, local and regional papers in America have been steadily declining in numbers for decades, long before the internet or the current recession (a trend that includes all media, not just print). Rapacious media consolidation has brought on a situation where <a href="http://www.freepress.net/ownership/chart/print" rel="nofollow">only handful of companies</a> dominates the US print media landscape. Most of the ostensibly local papers are owned by these giants and merely reprint much of the same content throughout their vast holdings, while minimizing localism. Hopefully this won't happen in UK to the degree it has in the US. And keeping a clearly left wing national paper can only be a good thing. Cheers, Jeff Hey Tom. Thanks for the comment. You certainly know more about UK print media than I do, but these dynamics you mention — less advertising revenue brought on by recession and increased internet competition — are playing a role in the plight of newspapers in the US.

Compared to the recent past though, local and regional papers in America have been steadily declining in numbers for decades, long before the internet or the current recession (a trend that includes all media, not just print). Rapacious media consolidation has brought on a situation where only handful of companies dominates the US print media landscape. Most of the ostensibly local papers are owned by these giants and merely reprint much of the same content throughout their vast holdings, while minimizing localism.

Hopefully this won’t happen in UK to the degree it has in the US. And keeping a clearly left wing national paper can only be a good thing.

Cheers, Jeff

]]> By: Tom Underwood http://www.mediainfidel.com/2009/03/what-has-caused-the-demise-of-the-newspaper.html/comment-page-1#comment-1994 Tom Underwood Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:00:46 +0000 http://www.mediainfidel.com/?p=367#comment-1994 Jeff,nice post. I'm doing a news reporting course at the moment and the UK regional papers are really struggling. The big publishers who own these papers are receiving less advertising income due to the recession and more competition from the internet which is affecting readership figures. The response has been to downsize staff, and as a consequence, the quality of the newspapers. However, there is still around 100 daily regional papers in the UK and hundreds of weekly regional papers - compared to other countries this is a thriving regional print media industry. Good news that The Observer will continue on as a left wing national paper - there had been reports it would shut down due to income loss. All the best, Tom Jeff,nice post. I’m doing a news reporting course at the moment and the UK regional papers are really struggling. The big publishers who own these papers are receiving less advertising income due to the recession and more competition from the internet which is affecting readership figures. The response has been to downsize staff, and as a consequence, the quality of the newspapers. However, there is still around 100 daily regional papers in the UK and hundreds of weekly regional papers – compared to other countries this is a thriving regional print media industry.

Good news that The Observer will continue on as a left wing national paper – there had been reports it would shut down due to income loss.

All the best, Tom

]]> By: JamesD http://www.mediainfidel.com/2009/03/what-has-caused-the-demise-of-the-newspaper.html/comment-page-1#comment-959 JamesD Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:06:26 +0000 http://www.mediainfidel.com/?p=367#comment-959 Thanks for the useful info. It's so interesting Thanks for the useful info. It’s so interesting

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