{"id":3248,"date":"2009-10-11T21:24:31","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T04:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/?p=3248"},"modified":"2013-02-07T19:57:29","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T03:57:29","slug":"drop-the-print-from-newsprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/11\/drop-the-print-from-newsprint\/","title":{"rendered":"drop the print from newsprint?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I subscribe to an online journal aimed primarily at photojournalists, The Digital Journalist<\/a>.\u00a0 It’s a great source for cutting edge photojournalism around the world as well as information of equipment new and old.\u00a0 They’ve run a very interesting editorial by Mark Loundy<\/a> concerning the (lack) of a future for newspapers.\u00a0 The cure to what ails print news is eliminating the printed product – according to Loundy it is a good 80 percent of the cost of producing a newspaper – the cost of producing the content is 20 percent – and that’s where the draconian slash and burn staff reductions and consolidations are taking place, further hastening the demise of the already life support dependent newspaper business model.<\/p>\n

Newspapers are trapped between two worlds. They can’t offer a viable online service because they can’t spend enough on staffing. Meanwhile, they’ve lashed themselves to a sinking ship that they’re bailing out by tossing journalists overboard. Of course, this drives readers away, causing the ship to sink faster.<\/p>\n

The print product isn’t just expensive, it is massively so. Writing in the Silicon Alley Insider, Nicholas Carson pointed out that for the cost of producing the print product, The New York Times could buy every one of its subscribers a Kindle. Make that two Kindles.<\/p>\n

Publishers are terrified of throwing away the large print-based ad revenues. But they will also be axing their titanic printing costs. They could spend part of this saving on improving local coverage.<\/p>\n

One of the biggest barriers to the success of online is the continued existence of the warm, comfortable print product. Fundamentally, most people resist change. Many continue to subscribe simply because that’s what they are used to. Without the choice of the printed paper, readers who currently say that they prefer the traditional product would suddenly find out that the digital water is just fine and getting rapidly better.<\/p>\n

Perhaps something that the Oregonian could consider as they make yet another round of buyouts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I subscribe to an online journal aimed primarily at photojournalists, The Digital Journalist.\u00a0 It’s a great source for cutting edge photojournalism around the world as well as information of equipment new and old.\u00a0 They’ve run a very interesting editorial by Mark Loundy concerning the (lack) of a future for newspapers.\u00a0 The cure to what ails […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[1640],"class_list":["post-3248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-the-oregonian"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-Qo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1022,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/07\/09\/the-critical-diaspora\/","url_meta":{"origin":3248,"position":0},"title":"the critical diaspora","author":"Charles Noble","date":"July 9, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"There's been a lot of coverage lately of the dismissal\/downsizing of some of the nation's top print classical music critics.\u00c2\u00a0 And there should have been.\u00c2\u00a0 Newspapers are one of the primary ways that orchestras communicate and market to their target audiences.\u00c2\u00a0 Check out these statistics, courtesy of the Newspaper Association\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "appreciation"","block_context":{"text":"appreciation","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/appreciations\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":732,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/03\/3-conductors-3-cities-3-newspapers\/","url_meta":{"origin":3248,"position":1},"title":"3 conductors, 3 cities, 3 newspapers","author":"Charles Noble","date":"February 3, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Mariss Jansons - Amsterdam Marin Alsop - Baltimore Xian Zhang - New York City","rel":"","context":"In "conducting"","block_context":{"text":"conducting","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/conducting\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2298,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/06\/obt-pit-goes-dark\/","url_meta":{"origin":3248,"position":2},"title":"OBT pit goes dark","author":"Charles Noble","date":"April 6, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"From today's Oregonian: In yet another round of bad news for Portland's arts scene, Oregon Ballet Theatre is cutting its budget 28 percent. 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