Community newspapers, like our own People Newspapers, will be delivered to your front lawn long after metro papers like the Morning News go entirely to some form–which, I’m guessing, hasn’t exactly been invented yet–of electronic delivery.
Hyper-local publications are counting on “refrigerator journalism” to keep the presses running. Half the job of putting together a neighborhood paper is making sure you’re running enough photos of cute kids and puppy dogs to keep parents cutting out articles to hang on the fridge.
But the new-fangled hyper-local blogging media is cribbing from that playbook. Witness the Junior Reporters’ Program at Roseland After School Academy, run by Shawn Williams of the Dallas South News site. These videos provide the frightening evidence: An army of cute kids outfitted with probing questions with which to prod sources? They’re coming for you, Park Cities People.
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I’m so proud of what these students have learned in such a short period of time. This is where we’re headed.
“Community newspapers, like our own People Newspapers, will be delivered to your front lawn long after metro papers like the Morning News go entirely to some form–which, I’m guessing, hasn’t exactly been invented yet–of electronic delivery.”
Not entirely true. Some will survive, others have already died a painful death.
The communities themselves are the ones who will decide the future.
Some choose to stick to the ways of the past and some have already chosen to step into the future.. Unfortunately the wave of the future does not come with a built-in model for profit…
Another A.H. Belo Layoff:
The Providence Journal’s sister newspaper, The Press-Enterprise of Riverside, Calif., laid off between 40 and 45 employees last week, according to a report on its Web site.
http://www.pbn.com/detail/45618.html