I remember reading that infographic in the Chicago Trib. Back in the Jordan Era the Chicago papers really covered the Bulls and occasionally the NBA with indepth local journalism. Now it's one or two beat writers and cut-and-paste articles from the bureaus. The best NBA writers have migrated to websites and apps.
And yes, tough sledding for newspapers. Weekday circulation was 56 million in 1998, and is less than half that today. Lots of contributing factors, starting with the migration of ad revenue from papers to internet. Then quality drops, and then consumers drop, and round and round we go. Circulation was dropping in the early 90s prior to the internet shift, so more at play I'm sure.
Meanwhile, web journalism remains just as volatile. Just look at how The Athletic came out swinging in 2016 and into 2017 with that boastful "We want to destroy newspapers" interview. They threw lots of money at lots of newspaper reporters who jumped over, then they sold to NYT $550 million and now the layoffs have begun, which will create another void.
I remember reading that infographic in the Chicago Trib. Back in the Jordan Era the Chicago papers really covered the Bulls and occasionally the NBA with indepth local journalism. Now it's one or two beat writers and cut-and-paste articles from the bureaus. The best NBA writers have migrated to websites and apps.
Thanks for reading Barron!
And yes, tough sledding for newspapers. Weekday circulation was 56 million in 1998, and is less than half that today. Lots of contributing factors, starting with the migration of ad revenue from papers to internet. Then quality drops, and then consumers drop, and round and round we go. Circulation was dropping in the early 90s prior to the internet shift, so more at play I'm sure.
Meanwhile, web journalism remains just as volatile. Just look at how The Athletic came out swinging in 2016 and into 2017 with that boastful "We want to destroy newspapers" interview. They threw lots of money at lots of newspaper reporters who jumped over, then they sold to NYT $550 million and now the layoffs have begun, which will create another void.
https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/fact-sheet/newspapers/