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New Orleans’ Times-Picayune cutting back on print editions, will focus on digital
Major newspaper downsizes to three “more robust” issues per week: The New Orleans Times-Picayune, the largest newspaper in Louisiana, will downsize and stop publishing a print edition daily, moving many of their resources to online-only publishing and probably cutting jobs along the way. This isn’t the first time the paper’s gone digital-only. In 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit the city, forcing the paper to come out with a digital-only PDF for three days, because their printing presses were down. Eventually, the printing presses went back up, but the spirit of the paper never went down. Let’s hope for their community’s sake that these changes don’t strip the community of that spirit. (above, today’s cover, via Newseum)
EDIT: The Times-Picayune isn’t alone — three major Alabama newspapers are getting similar treatments.
  1. shortformblog:

    New Orleans’ Times-Picayune cutting back on print editions, will focus on digital

    Major newspaper downsizes to three “more robust” issues per week: The New Orleans Times-Picayune, the largest newspaper in Louisiana, will downsize and stop publishing a print edition daily, moving many of their resources to online-only publishing and probably cutting jobs along the way. This isn’t the first time the paper’s gone digital-only. In 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit the city, forcing the paper to come out with a digital-only PDF for three days, because their printing presses were down. Eventually, the printing presses went back up, but the spirit of the paper never went down. Let’s hope for their community’s sake that these changes don’t strip the community of that spirit. (above, today’s cover, via Newseum)

    EDIT: The Times-Picayune isn’t alone — three major Alabama newspapers are getting similar treatments.

  1. 62 notesTimestamp: Friday 2012/05/25 2:11:15Via: shortformblognew orleanslouisianatimes picayunethe times picayunehurricane katrinanewspapers
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    No, but for real, check that Mother Jones link. In related news: fuck the world. The Times-Pic means more to me than the...
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  7. marysueprincess reblogged this from ediddy21 and added:
    This includes my newspaper (in the Alabama ones). Welp. That’s sad.
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    NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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  12. west-ward reblogged this from motherjones and added:
    I have some mixed emotions, I can’t remember the last time I picked up a physical copy of the T-P, so it won’t affect me...
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  15. thenightilostthewilltofight reblogged this from futurejournalismproject and added:
    Wow
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  18. mikexdavis reblogged this from motherjones and added:
    Terrible, terrible news.
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  21. exceptdissent reblogged this from motherjones and added:
    man this is like the one paper i read.
  22. wantthepharaohs reblogged this from motherjones and added:
    The Times-Pic is a great paper and this is a bummer. But at the same time I can’t say I read it in print very often, you...
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  24. tsotchke reblogged this from shortformblog and added:
    but then what will we put our crawfish on?
  25. motherjones reblogged this from shortformblog and added:
    is awful news. Take some...big investigation into Louisiana’s broken (to put it mildly)...
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    FJP: At yesterday’s GigaOm/paidContent conference we talked with Rob Grimshaw, Managing Director
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    I wonder if other Advance Publications papers will follow...Times-Picayune/Nola.com’s new...