London Free Press readers will wake up tomorrow without a Sunday paper for the first time since it was launched more than a decade ago.
And they will judge for themselves whether today's expanded Saturday edition will compensate for the loss of their Sunday paper.
Paul Berton, editor-in-chief, writes about the new Saturday edition in his column today and the loss of the Sunday paper, with the usual Quebecor rhetoric on the state of print media.
And they will judge for themselves whether today's expanded Saturday edition will compensate for the loss of their Sunday paper.
Paul Berton, editor-in-chief, writes about the new Saturday edition in his column today and the loss of the Sunday paper, with the usual Quebecor rhetoric on the state of print media.
I think it's silly to dismiss Berton's comments as "Quebecor rhetoric". Printed newspapers are dying. It may hurt to admit that for old-timers like us, but that doesn't make it any less true. I know fewer and fewer people under 45 who insist on starting their day with a print newspaper, the way we oldsters like to do.
ReplyDeleteI think it is deluded for those of us in the business to tell ourselves that this trend will reverse itself if we just build a better product. If the market doesn't want your product, it doesn't matter how good it is. That's capitalism, for good or for ill.
I don't have a solution. I just think we need to be realistic.