This is just a list of depressing news about “investors” dismantling independent newspapers… I’ve been following the stories via the Washington Post and other news organizations in my Facebook feed. Yes, there are bigger threats to a free and independent press than “new media.”
A Denver Post intern summed it, as quoted by Washington Post columnist Margaret Sullivan:
“I don’t understand the business plan,.. How does cutting off a leg help you keep running?”
I keep expecting someone to come up with a smoking-gun link between the political right wing and these vulture-capitalist “investors” dismantling the infrastructure of the free press in America.
BUT the “someone” would rightly be the independent investigative journalists who are losing their jobs. There are some bright spots on a national level, but fewer strong regional and local organizations.
https://www.bizjournals.com/denver/news/2018/03/14/massive-job-cuts-coming-to-the-denver-post.html
http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-ocr-layoffs-20180115-story.html
http://www.robertfeder.com/2018/03/15/layoffs-hit-chicago-tribune-newsroom-2/
And where to look for some hope…
http://billmoyers.com/story/10-investigative-reporting-outlets-to-follow/
mild-mannered reporter who found computers & the Web in grad school in the 1980s (Wesleyan) and '90s (UNC); taught journalism, media studies, Web production; retired to write, make music, photograph sunsets & walks in the woods.
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