They also did not face the competition from search engines and social media for advertisers. Throat-clearing, I’m not saying paywalls are the way. Only that in the day of the physical paper, newspapers could much-more effectively monetize their readership to advertisers, so talking up their readership benefited them to a greater extent than it now does, with no large tech companies were taking a cut.
“If it’s truly important, others will be reporting it, and a working link will eventually show up.”
Not dunking on you personally, because the genie isn’t going back in the bottle, but depends on what you define as important. The L.A. Times as a prime example in a giant metro area is not what it used to be in terms of staffing. If you live outside of New York City or Washington D.C., there are way fewer reporters paying attention to what is happening in your city or town. “Someone will aggregate it for me” is part of the reason its difficult to carve out a middle-class existence covering the courts beat in Lansing or Columbus.
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They also did not face the competition from search engines and social media for advertisers. Throat-clearing, I’m not saying paywalls are the way. Only that in the day of the physical paper, newspapers could much-more effectively monetize their readership to advertisers, so talking up their readership benefited them to a greater extent than it now does, with no large tech companies were taking a cut.
“If it’s truly important, others will be reporting it, and a working link will eventually show up.” Not dunking on you personally, because the genie isn’t going back in the bottle, but depends on what you define as important. The L.A. Times as a prime example in a giant metro area is not what it used to be in terms of staffing. If you live outside of New York City or Washington D.C., there are way fewer reporters paying attention to what is happening in your city or town. “Someone will aggregate it for me” is part of the reason its difficult to carve out a middle-class existence covering the courts beat in Lansing or Columbus.