I remember getting the newspaper (and working for one too, many years ago), but it's been a long time since I've anything with newsprint but put it in my woodstove. Nor am I alone; newspapers are struggling for readers and for a future strategy, and Eugene's Register-Guard is no exception. They recently discussed the challenges facing the paper, as well as what they are looking at as a long-term web and print strategy:
Home | "Register-Guard aims to serve print readers, grow online" | The Register-Guard.
"The Register-Guard will continue to focus on a seven-day-a-week newspaper for “print loyalists,” while searching for new ways to reach younger readers through a variety of online offerings, Editor and Publisher Tony Baker told the Eugene City Club on Friday"
What I would hope to see is increased local and state coverage, and less national and world coverage — there are plenty of sources for these. The R-G has made a lot of steps in this direction, particularly with blogs and video. While for now they're continuing with a print edition, I wonder how many more years it will be before that print newspaper is no more?
It’s within the realm of possibility that they don’t last out this year, they are much less than profitable at the moment.
Good to see you’re back from your winter break.
hope to see you at Beer and Blog this Friday
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