Harrisburg newspaper cutting back to 3 days a week
Patriot-News drops daily publication
Harrisburg newspaper cutting back to 3 days a week
Joseph N. DiStefano
The Newhouse family's Advance newspaper chain will stop daily publication of its Harrisburg Patriot-News, the company says here. Excerpt:
"The Patriot-News will change its print schedule to three days a week beginning in January 2013. At the same time, the organization will intensify its online and digital news-gathering efforts 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
"The newspaper will continue to publish on Sundays. The other two days of publication will be determined after gathering input from readers and advertisers.
"PA Media Group will offer larger newspapers on the three days it publishes — each on the scale of the current Sunday editions — and include many of the sections and features readers have come to expect from The Patriot-News." Newhouse (the family also controls the Conde Nast magazines) previously announced similar cuts at its New Orleans Times-Picayune. The chain also owns the Newark Star-Ledger, Gloucester County Times, Trenton Times, Express-Times of Easton, among others.
The Philadelphia Inquirer will do this next.— BobSG- I agree with Bobsg. I feel bad for the skilled, objective writers like Joseph DiStefano and a few others. But the librul slant is killing papers like the Inky- I refuse to buy the Sunday paper - the Currents section has slim pickings and is mostly cheering for the Dems and libruls. It is a mystery to me why would any business turn away from 50% of its potential paying customers?— justablogger
- It's a shame that you aren't bright enough to spell "liberal" right; a little knowledge might do you some good. — 165Valley
- So you win the Pulitzer for your sensational work on the Jerry Sandusky story, and this is the thanks you get from ownership.— tomfox
- Will obits be free online to read?— gb
- Thanks for your good wishes, JustaB. I figure we'll be here for sometime yet. Online too. Joe D.
— Joe D - Eventuality for all newspapers in the coming years.— The Baron
- I hope you are too Joe- I seem to remember you wrote once that you have six kids so you will have to work for a few more decades :)— justablogger
- How will the people of Harrisburg be alerted to severe oncoming weather without this newspaper? (snicker)— Another_1
- Without print news, local citizens will have to rely on either: (1) cable news which is biased toward the conservatives (Fox)or the liberals (MSNBC); or (2) commercial news (ABC, CBS,NBC) which is probably the last news source standing.— BobSG
- Print news will survive if it offers value-add analysis. The current crop of reporting and editorial oversight continues to move away from it.
If you look at the Journal and the NT Times, they succeed because they deliver rich content...something the Inquirer has been failing at for years.
— Keith S. - Great newspaper! I'll happily subscribe to their online version.— Bob Woods
- It would be interesting to see what readers determine is liberal and biased, or conservative and biased for that matter, in just about any newspaper. I'd love to see "Justablogger" (above) thumb through today's paper and point out every biased instance. For that matter, I'd welcome any reader here to point me a story you think shows an obvious liberal bias. I'd like to read it to see what it is you're seeing. And I am not saying you're wrong. But outside of opinion columns--which CAN have a bias--I'd like to see what it is newspaper's critics see.— PJB pipersville
- The business model of news has changed. What the Inquirer/Daily News have not been able to execute upon is a value-add paper. Writing about events with little editorial oversight and analysis lacks any sustainable value.
For example, the Inquirer could do much more indepth stories about businesses in the area (we are the 4th largest metro market) but would rather provide blurbs with no meat.
I don't need the Inquirer to tell me the weather, sports scores etc. I need it to provide value-add about those subjects- in-depth analysis about impact, repercussions of actions taken, and serious analytical insight.— Keith S. - Well PJB- let's take the Voter ID issue. Has the Inky ever written a story about it without lamenting some poor old 90 year old who was thrice married and had one divorce 50 years ago in Mexico and now can't document her real, current name? No they have not. Their storyline is always that the new law is a burden. Well, guess what a lot of things are a burden.
Or has the Inky ever wondered or written a story about how much money a school district really needs per student? No- their story is always the "cash-strapped bla bla bla school district".
The Inquirer supports and wants more and bigger govt - it never asks where that should stop.
These are consistently liberal positions.— justablogger
