Many Would Shrug if Their Local Newspaper Closed
As many newspapers struggle to stay economically viable, fewer than half of Americans (43%) say that losing their local newspaper would hurt civic life in their community “a lot.” Even fewer (33%) say they would personally miss reading the local newspaper a lot if it were no longer available. Full Story »
Posted by Dan Kennedy
I attended a conference a few years ago abut the future of newspapers. I was a city editor of a 22,000-circulation newspaper at the time. One point made early on in the conference was that newspapers are read by the 55 and older crowd and when us old farts die, the 30-somethings will not move into our easy chairs to read newspapers.