by jpitney | Apr 9, 2020 | Coronavirus, Journalism
From LAist: Citing plummeting advertising revenue as a result of the COVID-19 crisis, the Southern California News Group (SCNG), which operates 11 local newspapers in the region, has furloughed roughly 50 employees across its newsrooms and laid off several others,...
by jpitney | Apr 4, 2020 | Coronavirus, Journalism, Mass Media
Tali Arbel and David Bauder at AP: Researchers have long worried that the next recession — which economists say is already upon us — “could be an extinction-level event for newspapers,” said Penelope Abernathy, a University of North Carolina professor who studies the...
by jpitney | Feb 20, 2020 | Journalism, Newspapers
Sara Fischer at Axios: The New York Times said earlier this month that it passed $800 million in annual digital revenue, most of which came from the 5 million+ people that now subscribe to the paper’s digital subscription offering. The Wall Street Journal said...
by jpitney | Jan 7, 2020 | Journalism, Uncategorized
Brittney Mejia at The Los Angeles Times: The state’s oldest weekly newspaper, which once published Mark Twain, will keep printing after a California retiree stepped in to save the day. Carl Butz, a fourth-generation native Californian, is taking over the Mountain...
by jpitney | Dec 30, 2019 | California Politics, Journalism, Mass Media, Uncategorized
AP reports: One of the longest-running newspapers in California printed its final edition on Sunday, ending 161 years of publishing news about the city of Martinez east of San Francisco. Rick Jones, the Martinez News-Gazette’s editor, said he wasn’t certain whether...
