OT: The Post Standard

[Orangeyes]

It's a brave new world. Orangeyes should apply for president of the new company. He already creates more content than the PS.

Today the Post Standard grabbed the Carrier Dome #4 stadium by USA Today headline from 6:49 AM & reprinted it after 1 PM. Just a few minutes ago Steve Infanti talked about Joey Galloway picking SU to win the Big East which I found & put up just after 6 AM. They're even getting him on the show to see if he picked us out of a hat.

My problem with limited home delivery is it will take longer to figure out that our neighbor has died.

 

[jekelish]

I think the idea would be to charge for certain features but allow a fairly expansive free offering.

So basically the ESPN.com model?

 

[MadNY3]

Theoretically. But to-date hyper-local efforts like Patch have largely been a financial disaster.

Patch is a national start-up effort to attack the issue from a wounded corporate parent. That stands aside.

Localization of products (grown locally), explosion of craft breweries (most since 1880s) and increased national news sources is creating deeper demand for local plays in various manners. Not to say they scale easily/profitably - see Patch - but the Syracuse market has a relatively healthy positioned compared to some.

 

[billsin01]

So, news that was outdated when it hit my doorstep in the morning will now be outdated by 2-3 days?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.

It will certainly be more enterprise driven but investigative journalism takes serious resources. Very few papers have much of it anymore.

 

[TexanMark]

And the difference is that the NYT has a global readership, so if some people don't want to pay, so what? Millions of others still will.

With local papers like the PS, however, they don't have that luxury.

I think the P-S would do okay on a pay model if they go that way...so many folks moved away over the last 30-40 years and yet they still keep up with what is happening in CNY. I would pay $10 a month to read it online.

 

[Scooch]

Patch is a national start-up effort to attack the issue from a wounded corporate parent. That stands aside.

Localization of products (grown locally), explosion of craft breweries (most since 1880s) and increased national news sources is creating deeper demand for local plays in various manners. Not to say they scale easily/profitably - see Patch - but the Syracuse market has a relatively healthy positioned compared to some.

My concern is around scale, just as you said.

 

[Dcuse]

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.

This is disgusting.I am officially a dinosaur.NO SPORTS PAGE WITH MY COFFEE IN THE MORNING? It goes right along with my kids having no freakin social skills but can rip out a 50 word text message in 30 seconds. I'm hating what the world's becoming.

 

[Stern]

Newspapers and radio are dying a fast death. In the next 10 years neither may be around in all honesty. People get their news and music in totally different ways

 

[Scooch]

Newspapers and radio are dying a fast death. In the next 10 years neither may be around in all honesty. People get their news and music in totally different ways

Talk radio and news radio is healthy in terms of listenership and revenue. So radio will persist, although I agree that music formats will be challenged.

 

[upperdeck]

people get it all free , but can getting it all free be sustained as well. its great when all you want is national news and sports, you can go to ESPN/CNN and get your fill . But if you really want to know whats going on 5 miles from home the new trend sucks. the local paper serves a purpose that most wont realize until its gone. having a centralized place to get information with an expectation of reliability is something the kids 20 years from now will never know about.