From WorldMag blog:
The demise of a printed newspaper
by Emily Belz
The daily Christian Science Monitor won’t be printed daily anymore. CSM is the first national newspaper to succumb to the forces of the web and cut back the publication of its print version, with it now appearing only on weekends. The Boston-based paper’s circulation has dropped from its 1970 peak of 230,000 to 50,000, but its online presence has soared.
As a reporter who drools over newsprint, this death of the hard copy cuts me to the quick. There’s nothing like the serendipity of finding stories by skimming pages in a newspaper instead of clicking on the biggest headline on a web page - you end up reading things in a printed paper that you wouldn’t give five seconds thought to online. And if newspapers go online, what will we wrap fish in?
Industry gurus have been predicting that this would happen, and CSM will not be the last. I’m assuming most of you read your news online entirely?
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