Pittsburgh Post-Gazette going all digital

[HanSenSE]

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to "Phase Out" all Print - Pittsburgh Current

 

[jr/shotglass]

I was all prepared to pronounce something like "no daily papers in the eighth-largest city in the U.S."

Then I Googled it ... and Pittsburgh is No. 66 in population in the country. Henderson, Nev., and Aurora, Colo., are bigger.

List of United States cities by population - Wikipedia

 

[Dog8Cats]

I'm reading this in that article, though ...

The print version of the paper will now only be available Thursday, Friday and Sunday.

 

[jr/shotglass]

"Phasing out" is going to mean that won't last long, either.

 

[Fran Curci]

I was all prepared to pronounce something like "no daily papers in the eighth-largest city in the U.S."

Then I Googled it ... and Pittsburgh is No. 66 in population in the country. Henderson, Nev., and Aurora, Colo., are bigger.

List of United States cities by population - Wikipedia

I think the population within city limits is rarely indicative of the market.

 

[hondo]

The P-G gets sold and distributed as far south as Uniontown and Morgantown WV.

 

[Fredrick]

I'm reading this in that article, though ...

The print version of the paper will now only be available Thursday, Friday and Sunday.

Yes! It's happening. Down to 3 days for print. Even the Boomers who are hooked on habit/print will learn to live without a subscription. Save the 1000 dollars a year and say screw it.
Please all companies, copy this now. Let's speed this up and get rid of the daily fishrag now.
p.s. Ever think they are hanging on with three days of print edition just to make sure the employees don't all quit and merely start their own websites? Why write for the Post when it's all digital? You can put out your own digital product. But if the Post owns the presses they still can run your website out of business via print sales.

 

[LanceyHoward]

I was all prepared to pronounce something like "no daily papers in the eighth-largest city in the U.S."

Then I Googled it ... and Pittsburgh is No. 66 in population in the country. Henderson, Nev., and Aurora, Colo., are bigger.

List of United States cities by population - Wikipedia

I think the largest metropolitan area without a paper that prints daily is Portland, Oregon which is the 25th largest metropolitan area. I thought Newhouse had reduced the frequency of the Oregonian to three times a week. Pittsburgh is 26.

List of metropolitan statistical areas - Wikipedia

I think the largest city without a daily paper is Mesa, Arizona. I think Long Beach is next. LANG still prints the Long Beach Telegram but I don't think the company maintains any editorial offices in the city. List of United States cities by population - Wikipedia

 

[SoloFlyer]

I was all prepared to pronounce something like "no daily papers in the eighth-largest city in the U.S."

Then I Googled it ... and Pittsburgh is No. 66 in population in the country. Henderson, Nev., and Aurora, Colo., are bigger.

List of United States cities by population - Wikipedia

Isn't the city of Pittsburgh actually really small but there's a ton of suburbs and exurbs or whatever you call them?

 

[jr/shotglass]

Isn't the city of Pittsburgh actually really small but there's a ton of suburbs and exurbs or whatever you call them?

A lot of suburbs. I'm still shocked that the city itself is barely over 300K.

 

[Regan MacNeil]

I'm in one of those boroughs. Don't technically live in Pittsburgh, but I can be at PNC Park in about 12 minutes.

 

[SoloFlyer]

I'm in one of those boroughs. Don't technically live in Pittsburgh, but I can be at PNC Park in about 12 minutes.

So the Post-Gazette has a lot more reach than just those in the city limits.

I'm all for the digital push. But given what I've read about the PG's owners, I'm not exactly confident that they'll be pumping savings from from reduced print costs back into the newsroom.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

A lot of cities are like that: St. Louis is around 318,000 in city proper but metro is 2.8 million.

On a smaller scale, Little Rock just touched 200,000 in the last year or two in city limits but its metro is 738K as of 2017 (and Wankansawyers will say it should be every county but the four northwestern ones). The reason I mention that is the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette was among the first to say they'll be all-digital.

 

[Fredrick]

A lot of cities are like that: St. Louis is around 318,000 in city proper but metro is 2.8 million.

On a smaller scale, Little Rock just touched 200,000 in the last year or two in city limits but its metro is 738K as of 2017 (and Wankansawyers will say it should be every county but the four northwestern ones). The reason I mention that is the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette was among the first to say they'll be all-digital.

When does Little Rock go all digital? That's huge, too! Please papers, kill the fishwrap. Go all online.

 

[Joe Williams]

Damn. And to think I once turned down a job at the Pittsburgh Press. How long has that paper been gone?

 

[outofplace]

Damn. And to think I once turned down a job at the Pittsburgh Press. How long has that paper been gone?

That one has been gone since 1992.

 

[I Should Coco]

A good column by Ken Doctor of Newsonomics/NiemanLab on how publishers are preparing to dramatically cut back on "daily" newspaper print editions:

Newsonomics: The “daily” part of daily newspapers is on the way out — and sooner than you might think

They're calling it the 7/1 or 7/2 conversion — a print edition on Sunday (or Wednesday and Sunday) and online access via subscription the rest of the week.

Blame Google and Facebook, blame tariffs and newsprint costs, blame Amazon and Uber for hiring away would-be early-morning newspaper deliverers — it makes little difference. We are on the brink of seeing major cutbacks in daily delivery and daily printing of newspapers, as soon as 2020.

“It is one of the top topics of discussion in the boardroom,” says Peter Doucette, managing director of the Technology & Media Practice for well-used news industry consultant FTI. “The current operating model is under duress like we’ve never seen before. Our point of view is that the daily morning distribution model is no longer going to work in a three- to five-year timeline. That’s broad, of course, and dependent on market.”

 

[Fredrick]

A good column by Ken Doctor of Newsonomics/NiemanLab on how publishers are preparing to dramatically cut back on "daily" newspaper print editions:

Newsonomics: The “daily” part of daily newspapers is on the way out — and sooner than you might think

They're calling it the 7/1 or 7/2 conversion — a print edition on Sunday (or Wednesday and Sunday) and online access via subscription the rest of the week.

Please, do it now. Let's get the death of newspapers moving faster. Then individual reporters will discover they are able to start their own Websites because those reporters will suddenly have the clout, the knowledge. Power of the press? Gone. Do it, suits and we can get this rolling and laugh our behinds off at you.

 

[wicked]

“Sooner than you might think”? Um. No. People were saying this was imminent 10 years ago.

 

[BTExpress]

Four years ago our chain had a style/typefaces/etc. re-branding of the print product called "2020."

Print product may not even live to see the end of that year.