The local New Hampshire Public Radio call-in program "The Exchange," hosted by Laura Knoy, had a program on January 22 (a podcast is on this page) about the state of the newspaper industry in this area (ME, NH & MA).
Upshot: the local, free newspapers are doing just fine.
Hmmm.
I tells ya, local is where it's at for newspapers. Now if they'd start buying local cartoons again...
ReplyDeleteHere in Holland the two biggest papers are free papers that are distributed in trains (remember those), supermarkets and hospitals. Of course they use the fact that they are free and don't have much of a budget as an argument not to have cartoons or pay very little for the fe they have (while spending many times that on having color printing on any photograph. A third free paper went bankrupt, though.
ReplyDeleteWoo-hoo, our business plan can still work! Viva la Delaware!
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comments. Seeing as The Village Voice chain has now dropped all its comics, I'm not feeling so good about this.
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