media downspiral: USA Today

[danny burstein]

[Poynter]

After a nearly 40-year run, USA Today and its digital sites are about to
undergo a major restructuring that will include building up digital
marketing while phasing out the print edition.

The deal for GateHouse's parent, New Media Investment Group, to acquire
Gannett, which owns USA Today, will not close for at least another month.
Nothing much will happen - or legally can happen - until then, and
don'st look for this to be the new company'ss first order of business.
Winding print down could take several years.

But two knowledgeable sources, talking on background, said a move away
from USA Today in print is part of the calculations for the new
enterprise. It makes a lot of sense, given the print edition's
deteriorating paid circulation and minimal advertising.
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rest:
https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2019/is-usa-todays-print-edition-headed-for-the-sunset-as-gatehouse-and-gannett-merge-signs-point-to-yes/
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[Steven Otte]

Then what will mid-priced hotels leave in front of room doors every morning and recycle by 10 a.m.?!

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[Richard de Give]

The local paper ... if it's publishing that day (sigh).

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[rych withers]

Oh, you mean like the expanded weekend coverage?? The Fresno Bee announced they were abandoning printing on Saturdays with the headline:

The Fresno Bee launches expanded weekend newspapers

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[Richard de Give]

Yeah. Oh hell, with the early deadlines to facilitate printing in Sacramento, we weren't getting Friday night football results in a dead tree edition until Sunday anyway. 

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[Doug Elrod (dre1@cornell.edu)]

But, how do they handle daily crossword puzzles, then?  I mean, you can't have the answers in the same issue as the puzzle, can you?

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On an entirely unrelated note:  I'm wondering if the (sexy?) Clown Wearing a WNN-Logo-Box will be big at Halloween parties this year (appropriately tweaked
for H.R., of course :-))