Posts tagged ‘newspapers’  How Newspapers May Survive  Local
blogger Greg Patterson writes:  The Wall Street Journal is
reporting that Gannett will soon be adding USA Today to it's
local papers.  With this change, the Republic and USA Today are
essentially a hybrid.  As print revenue continues to slide the
USA Today side will grow and the Republic side will shrink.
 Eventually, your morning Republic will consist of a copy of USA
Today with enhanced local coverage.  This is a change I have
expected for a long time.  The wire services have always existed
as an attempt by local papers to share costs in national and
international news gathering, but I would have expected this
next step of national consolidation some time ago.  The internet
allows not just the text, but the entire layout of newspapers to
be transmitted instantly across the country.  The whole
situation reminds me of television broadcasting, where local
affiliates exist mainly as a byproduct of past technological
limitations in signal transmission.