R.I.P The Tuscon Citizen
Comments(2) Hot on the news today is the reported closure of one of the oldest newspapers in the US, the 138 year old Tuscon Citizen. The paper will continue on as an On Line Paper in a modified format, but without news or sports coverage, it might as well be put to rest, although a move by the Santa Monica Media Corp to block the closure of the paper, after trying to negotiate to buy it, might see it survive for a few more days. This brings me to the recent moves at Fairfax in Australia, which has just recently retrenched a number of it’s on line staff, due to a merger with the print side.
Funny though, that only the digital staff were retrenched!!
It’s being promoted by Fairfax as a one stop solution for the companies clients and Fairfax is saying that all the agents out there are really in favour of it. I would suggest that they get to know the market just a little bit better, given that print is on the decline in Australia. It’s shame that this has started to happen, as Domain.com.au was starting to get it’s act together.
All they are really doing is protecting the print side of the business, and that for Domain.com.au is a very real shame.
Maybe it’s time for the prospect of an Industry owned site to be raised again?
Thanks a lot for such a great informative post.
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