Friday, December 12, 2008

Think the mainstream media might be in trouble?

How about a major city newspaper not delivering the newspaper most days?

The publisher of the Detroit Free Press, the country's 20th largest paper by weekday circulation, is expected to announce next week that it will cease home delivery of the print edition of the newspaper on most days of the week, according to a person familiar with the company's thinking.

The publisher hasn't made a final decision, said this person, but the leading scenario set to be unveiled Tuesday would call for the Free Press and its partner paper, the Detroit News, to end home delivery on all but the most lucrative days—Thursday, Friday and Sunday. On the other days, the publisher would sell single copies of an abbreviated print edition at newsstands and direct readers to the papers' expanded digital editions.

4 comments:

Bethany W. said...

Newspapers - you have to actually READ those. We will be in real trouble when satellite tv goes under.

Bethany

James said...

Yeah, i'm not quite sure I'm going to know how to handle life without the Detroit News....

Arthur Sido said...

seriously, who has a newspaper delivered? you can read it online for free.

although, James your blog name is "Deliver Detroit" so you might have to change it to "Deliver Detroit Thursday, Friday and Sunday"

James said...

Yeah....either that, or start selling pizza?