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The paper announced a big shakeup today. They're cutting back to three days a week in print, with a bigger focus on Syracuse.com.
 
Do you see an annual subscription coming for the Internet version?
 
That was a broad announcement today too. Must be newhouise or someone (whatever company name) must own a lot of papers/online. Many nespapers announced the same thing such as PennLive and their paper (Patriot News?).
 
rrlbees said:
That was a broad announcement today too. Must be newhouise or someone (whatever company name) must own a lot of papers/online. Many nespapers announced the same thing such as PennLive and their paper (Patriot News?).
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The Gannett papers did this a month or so ago as well. However, I believe they are all going to pay wall. Pressconnects.com (Binghamton's online version of the press and sun) is pay walled now (with an allocation of free articles a la nytimes.com I believe).
 
It will be interesting to see what price point they choose. Anyone know how the NY Times is doing with their digital subscriptions? I know they have a 3-tiered digital selection (website and smartphone apps $15/month, website and tablet apps $20/month, all digital access $35/month). Not sure Syracuse.com could support pricing like that, but I will await their pricing scheme to see if, as an out-of-towner, it would be worthwhile.
 
Another sad day for the newspaper industry. As someone who worked in the business for 20 plus years, it pains me to see this happen.
 
So, news that was outdated when it hit my doorstep in the morning will now be outdated by 2-3 days?

I hope they try and separate the content of the print version to include more investigative journalism. Give me the day-to-day stuff online.
 
Since I'm paying for a weekly subscription that will now only provide 3 papers a week, will there be refunds?

Or will my subscription eventually include access to online content if it goes "pay per view"?
 
OrangeXtreme said:
Since I'm paying for a weekly subscription that will now only provide 3 papers a week, will there be refunds?
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Same here. My guess is they will apply the existing subscription amount against the balance, and let it play out. No refunds.
 
Will be interesting to see how this plays out. I think it puts more pressure on the athletic department to promote its programs because you've lost a key ingredient four days a week. And once you go to three days, some people will stop buying the paper altogether.
 
cuseguy said:
And once you go to three days, some people will stop buying the paper altogether.
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They haven't already?

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44PRIDE said:
Give me the day-to-day stuff online.
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"Give"? If everything online is "free" and the hardcopy revenues drop then I suspect that there'll soon be no content to "give".

The industry is still trying to find a viable model. At this point the only ones that appear to have a chance are the large national papers (NYT, USA Today, etc.) and those with a television outlet (ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox, etc.).

One wonders how soon the latest measures taken by publications in small & medium markets will also need to be taken in the larger cities.
 
cuseguy said:
Another sad day for the newspaper industry. As someone who worked in the business for 20 plus years, it pains me to see this happen.
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I agree. A great industry is almost gone. In terms of resources, energy, etc., hard copy papers do not make sense, not with the Internet a click away, even from your smart phone.

But I love the smell of a newspaper, feeling the heft of a Sunday paper, leafing through the sections one by one. The hard copy is special and I was willing to pay for it even though it was more convenient in many ways (and cheaper) to just read articles on line. Probably goes back to the days when I delivered papers as a kid.

Anyway, I agree, it is a very sad day, particularly for people in the newspaper industry. There is a ton of wasted money spent on paper, ink, binding, distribution, etc. I hope some of the money saved will be used to keep the writers, editors and photographers of the newspapers employed and well compensated. If I lose Dave Rahme, Mike Waters, Donna Ditota, Pete Thamel, Peter Gammons, Kevin McNamara, Chico Harlan, et al, life would not be nearly as interesting or entertaining.
 
rrlbees said:
They haven't already?

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I know what you're saying. But I'm talking about the people who are still getting the paper.

Television stations better hope newspapers stay in business because that's where they get half of their news.
 
sutomcat said:
I agree. A great industry is almost gone. In terms of resources, energy, etc., hard copy papers do not make sense, not with the Internet a click away, even from your smart phone.

But I love the smell of a newspaper, feeling the heft of a Sunday paper, leafing through the sections one by one. The hard copy is special and I was willing to pay for it even though it was more convenient in many ways (and cheaper) to just read articles on line. Probably goes back to the days when I delivered papers as a kid.

Anyway, I agree, it is a very sad day, particularly for people in the newspaper industry. There is a ton of wasted money spent on paper, ink, binding, distribution, etc. I hope some of the money saved will be used to keep the writers, editors and photographers of the newspapers employed and well compensated. If I lose Dave Rahme, Mike Waters, Donna Ditota, Pete Thamel, Peter Gammons, Kevin McNamara, Chico Harlan, et al, life would not be nearly as interesting or entertaining.
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One of my fears in all this is the day is coming (if it's not here already) that you won't be able to get any local news (via the paper) if you're in town unless you have an online/smartphone subscription. Dicey times for generating news.
 
I don't know if they're going to try to force a payment system to use Syracuse.com.

I heard the Buffalo News tried to do that, and it was a disaster.

People are willing to pay for the NYT. Other papers? Not so much.
 
LeMoyneCuse said:
I don't know if they're going to try to force a payment system to use Syracuse.com.

I heard the Buffalo News tried to do that, and it was a disaster.

People are willing to pay for the NYT. Other papers? Not so much.
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I know the Rochester D&C just went to an online subscription service.
 
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