In the great horse race to see which large U.S. city will first lose its daily newspaper altogether, Denver has now taken a quantum leap forward into the frontrunner pack with the announcement today that EW Scripps is shuttering the Rocky Mountain News. While the city still has the Denver Post, that paper is in [...]
In a speech to the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association, MediaNews Group CEO Dean Singleton stated that newspapers should look at outsourcing and off-shoring not only their ad-production and non-editorial functions, but also the news desk. He also added that larger newspaper companies with multiple dailies should consolidate all the news desks to cut costs. “One [...]