The end of Newspapers?

Good strory from the International Herald Tribune on the dramatic changes and huge challanges for the newspaper biz.

Talk of the demise of newspapers is older than some of the reporters who write about it, but what is happening now is something new, something more serious than anyone has experienced in generations.

"I'm an optimist, but it is very hard to be positive about what's going on," said Brian Tierney, publisher of The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Philadelphia Daily News. "The next few years are transitional, and I think some papers aren't going to make it."

Comments

[Eric Anderson]

Sad to say, they're in a death spiral. Denver Post is responding to declining revenue by cutting back its product (see consolidation of local and business sections), which will only accelerate the decline.