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Old 01-20-2016, 09:08 AM   #94
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It is an interesting point you make here. The newspapers are dying because they haven't invested in their business, yet no one is buying newspapers because nobody wants to pay for good journalism. I think its a catch-22

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Originally Posted by Flash Walken View Post
There is still room for investigative journalism. The problem is that it investigative journalism isn't a profit driver.

So, that's why they are going to write 1 article for 2 newspapers.

It has nothing to do with millenials not buying newspapers or feeling entitled to free content. It comes down to Newspapers being husks of what they once were, transformed by 25 years of downsizing, cuts, layoffs and more downsizing in the newsroom.

Local Papers, papers that provide actual investigative content and inform their readers of news and current events in their local areas are one of the few places left in the newspaper world where things aren't dying rapidly increasing death. Why? Because they have actual content that people care about.
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