Re: Whither Print Media
By: Andrea Trapani
Not as bad as some feared, but still not great news:
Detroit’s newspapers announced Tuesday they plan to offer only three days of home delivery and will push their online editions in a fight for their survival amid slumping revenue industry wide.
The Detroit Media Partnership expects to cut about 9 percent of its work force but “hopefully” less, and there will be no job reductions in the newsrooms of the Detroit Free Press or The Detroit News, said David Hunke, Free Press publisher and chief executive of Detroit Media Partnership.
It’s the “fight for their survival amid slumping revenue industry wide” part that is of most concern, both to the media themselves and to PR practitioners. Both will evolve.
