The Eagle Times newspaper in Claremont, N.H., is filing for bankruptcy and shutting down.
Publisher Harvey Hill sent an e-mail to staffers Thursday saying Friday's edition of the paper will be its last.
He told employees he did his best to keep the daily paper going, but the economy and changes in the newspaper industry have made it impossible to survive. He said employees will get their last paycheck next week and will have health coverage through the end of the month.
The paper covers the city of Claremont and the surrounding area, including several towns in Vermont.
Hill did not return a message for comment. -- Associated Press
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Showing posts with label Shutdowns. Show all posts
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Friday, July 10, 2009
Saturday, June 6, 2009
Newspapers Most Likely to Shut Down
or Go Online Only
This video showcases the U.S. daily newspaper power rankings published each month by Scooping the News. The rankings reflect which metro dailies are currently performing the best in terms of readership stability both in print and online. One exclusive feature found on this video is a list of newspapers most likely to shut down or go online only next. Sphere: Related Content
Sunday, May 17, 2009
-30- for the Tucson Citizen
Arizona atty gen moves to halt closing of Tucson Daily
The Arizona attorney general's office filed a complaint Friday in federal court seeking to halt closure of the state's oldest continuously published daily newspaper, the 138-year-old Tucson Citizen.
Tucson Citizen becomes Internet-only
MarketWatch reported that the newspaper will become an Internet-only publication after Saturday.
Ann Arbor News to publish final edition July 23
The Ann Arbor News plans to publish its last newspaper July 23, with a twice-weekly online-focused operation taking its place. Sphere: Related Content
Sunday, May 10, 2009
The American Press on Suicide Watch
By Frank Rich
New York Times, columnist
If you wanted to pick the moment when the American news business went on suicide watch, it was almost exactly three years ago. That’s when Stephen Colbert, appearing at the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, delivered a monologue accusing his hosts of being stenographers who had, in essence, let the Bush White House get away with murder (or at least the war in Iraq). To prove the point, the partying journalists in the Washington Hilton ballroom could be seen (courtesy of C-Span) fawning over government potentates — in some cases the very “sources” who had fed all those fictional sightings of Saddam Hussein’s W.M.D.
Colbert’s routine did not kill. The Washington Post reported that it “fell flat.” The Times initially did not even mention it. But to the Beltway’s bafflement, Colbert’s riff went viral overnight, ultimately to have a marathon run as the most popular video on iTunes. The cultural disconnect between the journalism establishment and the public it aspires to serve could not have been more vividly dramatized.
The bad news about the news business has accelerated ever since. Newspaper circulations and revenues are in free fall. Legendary brands from The Los Angeles Times to The Philadelphia Inquirer are teetering. The New York Times Company threatened to close The Boston Globe if its employees didn’t make substantial sacrifices in salaries and benefits. Other papers have died. The reporting ranks on network and local news alike are shriveling. You know it’s bad when the Senate is moved, as it was last week, to weigh in with hearings on “The Future of Journalism.” [Click for MORE] Sphere: Related Content
New York Times, columnist
If you wanted to pick the moment when the American news business went on suicide watch, it was almost exactly three years ago. That’s when Stephen Colbert, appearing at the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, delivered a monologue accusing his hosts of being stenographers who had, in essence, let the Bush White House get away with murder (or at least the war in Iraq). To prove the point, the partying journalists in the Washington Hilton ballroom could be seen (courtesy of C-Span) fawning over government potentates — in some cases the very “sources” who had fed all those fictional sightings of Saddam Hussein’s W.M.D.Colbert’s routine did not kill. The Washington Post reported that it “fell flat.” The Times initially did not even mention it. But to the Beltway’s bafflement, Colbert’s riff went viral overnight, ultimately to have a marathon run as the most popular video on iTunes. The cultural disconnect between the journalism establishment and the public it aspires to serve could not have been more vividly dramatized.
The bad news about the news business has accelerated ever since. Newspaper circulations and revenues are in free fall. Legendary brands from The Los Angeles Times to The Philadelphia Inquirer are teetering. The New York Times Company threatened to close The Boston Globe if its employees didn’t make substantial sacrifices in salaries and benefits. Other papers have died. The reporting ranks on network and local news alike are shriveling. You know it’s bad when the Senate is moved, as it was last week, to weigh in with hearings on “The Future of Journalism.” [Click for MORE] Sphere: Related Content
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
'This Year Will Bring a True Sea Change'
U.S. media expert Jeff Jarvis is predicting a massive shift in the American media market this year -- the death of print newspapers across the country. In an interview, he explains why he believes the future for serious journalism lies with Web sites like Twitter and Google News. [Click for MORE]
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Monday, May 4, 2009
N.Y. Times to File Notice It Will Close Boston Globe
By Howard Kurtz Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, May 4, 2009; 6:19 AM
The New York Times Co. said last night that it is notifying federal authorities of its plans to shut down the Boston Globe, raising the possibility that New England's most storied newspaper could cease to exist within weeks.
After down-to-the-wire negotiations did not produce millions of dollars in union concessions, the Times Co. said that it will file today a required 60-day notice of the planned shutdown under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification law. [Click for MORE]
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Thursday, March 26, 2009
10 Newspapers That Will Survive The Apocalypse
Click to start > Believe it or not, there are investors who still want to buy local newspapers.
Our favorite person of this stripe is an investor who has already plunked millions into the industry and is in the process of spending much more.
"I might be running head first into the buggy-whip business, but I'm not sold on the death of print quite yet," he tells us. (He's asked us to keep him anonymous because many of those deals remain under non-disclosure agreements.)
So what does this investor see in the newspaper industry that the rest of us don't? Lots of room for improvement, for one thing. [Click for MORE]
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
U.S. Bill Seeks to Rescue Faltering Newspapers
With many U.S. newspapers struggling to survive, a Democratic senator on Tuesday introduced a bill to help them by allowing newspaper companies to restructure as nonprofits with a variety of tax breaks.
"This may not be the optimal choice for some major newspapers or corporate media chains but it should be an option for many newspapers that are struggling to stay afloat," said Senator Benjamin Cardin. [Click for MORE]
Monday, March 23, 2009
What Happens When a Town Loses Its Newspaper?
Disused newspaper racks clutter a storage yard. [Noah Berger / AP]
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
New SeattlePI.com Strategy: 'Experiment a Lot, Fail Fast'
Today the Seattle Post-Intelligencer delivers its final print edition, tomorrow it debuts as an online-only publication. The new SeattlePI.com will try to answer the question raised by its executive producer Michelle Nicolosi: "Is it possible to run an online-only local news site that serves a city's readers well while turning a profit?"Nicolosi says, "Our strategy moving forward is to experiment a lot and fail fast" [Click for MORE]
Seattle Paper Shifts Entirely to the Web
The Post-Intelligencer is the largest American paper to drop its print edition and become an Internet-only entity.- Seattle Post-Intelligencer to become Web-only newspaper
- Photo gallery: Last publication day at the P-I
- Video: The P-I staff: What we'll remember about the paper
- seattlepi.com to continue
- Video: Publisher's announcement
- Special section: P-I memories
- Letter to readers
- More about the new seattlepi.com
- Connelly: Online-only P-I will be a journalism adventure
- PDF of commemorative P-I page
- Questions and answers for Seattle P-I subscribers
- The PI's globe will keep on spinning
- Hearst Ends 'Post-Intelligencer's 146-Year Run
- Will 'Seattle Times' Follow 'PI' Into the Sunset?
- Hearst Closing Seattle P-I Print Edition, Going Online Only
- P-I's closure offers "cautious relief" for Seattle Times, but no solution
- Read historic front pages from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Gallery | The Seattle P-I through the years
- Statement from Frank Blethen (PDF)
Thursday, March 12, 2009
As Cities Go From Two Papers to One, Talk of Zero
“In 2009 and 2010, all the two-newspaper markets will become one-newspaper markets, and you will start to see one-newspaper markets become no-newspaper markets,” said Mike Simonton, a senior director at Fitch Ratings, who analyzes the industry.Many critics and competitors of newspapers — including online start-ups that have been hailed as the future of journalism — say that no one should welcome their demise. [Click for MORE] Sphere: Related Content
Friday, February 27, 2009
Rocky Mountain News: Final Edition
Final Edition from Matthew Roberts on Vimeo.
It is with great sadness that we say goodbye to you today. Our time chronicling the life of Denver and Colorado, the nation and the world, is over. Thousands of men and women have worked at this newspaper since William Byers produced its first edition on the banks of Cherry Creek on April 23, 1859. We speak, we believe, for all of them, when we say that it has been an honor to serve you. To have reached this day, the final edition of the Rocky Mountain News, just 55 days shy of its 150th birthday is painful. We will scatter. And all that will be left are the stories we have told, captured on microfilm or in digital archives, devices unimaginable in those first days. [Click for MORE]
Rocky Mountain News closes, publishes final edition Colorado's oldest newspaper published its final edition Friday. The Rocky Mountain News, less than two months away from its 150th anniversary, closed after a search for a buyer proved unsuccessful.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Rocky Mountain News to Close,
Publish Final Edition Friday
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The Rocky Mountain News publishes its last paper tomorrow. Rich Boehne, chief executive officer of Scripps, broke the news to the Rocky staff at noon today, ending nearly three months of speculation over the paper's future. He called the paper a victim of a terrible economy and an upheaval in the newspaper industry.
"Denver can't support two newspapers anymore," Boehne told staffers, some
of whom cried at the news.
On Dec. 4, Boehne announced that Scripps was looking for a buyer for the Rocky and its 50 percent interest in the Denver Newspaper Agency, the company that handles business matters for the papers, because it couldn't continue to sustain its financial losses in Denver. Scripps said the Rocky lost $16 million in 2008. [Click for MORE]
- @RMN_Newsroom: "It's strange to cover your own funeral"
- Rocky Mountain News milestones
- Post announces Rocky hires
- Q & A on the closure of the Rocky Mountain News
- Friday last day for Rocky Mountain News
- RIP 'Rocky Mountain News,' 1859-2009
- The Denver Post's bulldog is dead
The "live" blogging is at:
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2009/feb/26/live-coverage-official-announcement-rocky/
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Friday, February 20, 2009
Newspaper Industry's Collapse Hastens;
Shutdowns Loom
The collapse of the U.S. newspaper industry is accelerating as a deepening plunge in advertising forces publishers to consider curtailing print editions or shutting down altogether.The Seattle Post-Intelligencer will appear only on the Internet and the Tucson Citizen in Arizona will close if their parent companies can't find buyers for them by March. Denver's Rocky Mountain News is up for sale, and Detroit's two dailies cut their publishing schedule to three days a week.
"There's going to be a lot of papers giving up days of the week that they publish editions and an acceleration of movement from print to digital publishing," said Ken Doctor, an analyst at media consultant Outsell Inc. in Burlingame, California. [Click for MORE]
- Belt-tightening in media squeezes more workers
- W-S Journal publisher mandates furloughs
- Media General to Furlough Employees 10 Days
- Lee refinances debt, amends bank credit agreement
- Sun-Times, strategic adviser part ways
- Newspapers in survival mode
- New York Times suspends dividend to preserve cash
- Tribune Co. freezes non-union salaries
- Chicago Tribune announces anti-corruption campaign
- Baltimore Sun feels Tribune cost cuts
- Virginian-Pilot lays off 30, kills 26-year-old weekly arts paper
- Scripps expected to announce Rocky plans by March 31
- "The public has trouble accepting the idea that news could be in danger"
- Five papers' content-sharing deal "is not an anti-AP initiative"
- P-I union to discuss an employee buyout of the paper
- Journal-Constitution staff told about "substantial" cuts
- E.W. Scripps announces pay reductions, other cuts
- Five NY, NJ papers forge content-sharing deal
- NYT could net $1.2B with sale of Globe, other assets
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