Comment Rescue: News Journal Deathwatch Edition
The NJ will probably never really die outright. Rather it will devolve into a glorified statewide “Dover Post” type advertiser.
Here’s anon…
I thought it was worthy of note that Gannett, the publisher of the News Journal, is laying off 10 percent of its newspaper workforce by December. Exact details will undoubtedly be trickling out over the next while. So look for less local news in Delaware’s only statewide newspaper.
Newspapers are kind of like the canary in the coal mine, folks. They feel it first because a business will cut its advertising before it cuts its employees. But if things don’t get better soon…
Details at http://gannettblog.blogspot.com/
Get rid of Basicoonsie and give Rachel Kipp the county beat.
Every newspaper in the country is cutting back on staff. Paper sales are down 7%. NY Post, San Francisco Chronicle and many others have cut staff. The internet is where people get their news because we don’t trust the newspapers anymore to tell the truth unbiasedly.
The News Journal and its editorial board should be ashamed at some of the positions they have taken. I don’t buy the paper anymore unless there is a story I am interested in.
The reason a lot of stories aren’t covered by the NJ is because they are short staffed. That is a direct quote from one of the staff.
The reason a lot of stories aren’t covered by the NJ is because they are short staffed. That is a direct quote from one of the staff.
That is the problem here at DL, too. Of course we still churn out more and better news stories that the NJ, and we do it for free.
Perhaps there is something wrong with both of our business models.
The NJ isn’t really statewide. It rarely covers Sussex County news in it’s “Kent/Sussex Edition”
If you want real Sussex news you have to read the Cape Gazette and the Seaford Star.
Let’s see: no real newspaper. No TV station.
I think we are approaching the definition of a backwater.