The Slow lingering death of Print Journalism

Placid

2 paper shops shut near us.

Tried 442 for my kids they’re just not interested in it as a a format. All their media is via instagram, twitter and youtube.

YEP and other regionals have to be close to finishing. No idea how they make any money.

Reggie_Perrin

Placid same here. 442 sat on the stairs in cellophane, untouched.

Harvest

Maybe newspapers but magazines seem to do ok, maybe they’re at a plateau where the numbers are always steady. There some to be loads more mags then there used to be.

space

I would guess from the technology side it’s now a lot cheaper to print small batches of stuff so the breakeven point has lowered.

OMJ the magazine? I could be the argumentative cunt column.

Reggie_Perrin

I really liked DHM’s old tome Jack. It had style and wit.

cordshoes

Hard for us old ’uns to understand, and take on the chin.

Even more so with the launch of the subscription football site The Athletic, with it’s 10,000 word odes on what some boring cunt had for their lunch etc.

Reggie_Perrin

I subscribed to that Readly thing where you could read hundreds of mags on a tablet or phone. None of the family were interested at all, even in the computer game or geeky superhero ones. Cancelled it.

Young_Marxist_at_Tescos

Agree that it’s dying and it’s a shame. Used to love buying a paper of a Saturday and leafing through it in the pub over a couple of pints

Harvest

Young_Marxist_at_Tescos Used to get the Independent on a Saturday, felt like part of the weekend ritual.

Jon

Harvest

Young_Marxist_at_Tescos You can still do that.

Amazing how fast it’s changing. Only mag I subscribe to these days is National Geographic. Haven’t bought a paper in years.

Rudi

You see it reflected in the clickbait culture of local evening press. The actual thing is secondary to the site.

Harvest

Jon Three subscriptions in our house. Me - Uncut, wife - Vogue, which is capable of flattening a reasonable sized rodent when it lands on the mat, the lad - National Geographic Traveller - ooh look Dad there’s a feature on the Angolan craft ale movement.

Newspaper, couple of times a year.

Travis_Bickle

We still get The Times delivered to chambers.

Reggie_Perrin

Travis_Bickle does anyone sit and read it for more than 10 mins?

Harvest

Reggie_Perrin Yes.

Jon

Harvest She gets Vanity Fair, which I sometimes read too.

Travis_Bickle

Harvest We did wonder who that strange bloke in conference room 7 was……

white_dragon

When I’m away in my caravan I buy a paper most days . Racing and crossword mainly, especially on rainy days .

Harvest

Warm the seat next time eh.

Mitaman

I really wonder if anybody these days reads anything of length, print or online? It seems that people have rarely enough attention span to last longer than 10 minutes.

I find it harder and harder these days to sit down and read a long article.

Raposa

Mitaman
Very true.
I love reading books but these days the only time I get to do so is when I’m laid on a beach or by the pool somewhere warm.
Should make more of an effort really.
Same on the train during the daily commute, seems everyone is glued to their phones rather than reading a paper or a good book .

Rudi

Raposa I knew I should have been a plumber