L.A. Weekly is dying

[CA4Now]

The L.A. Weekly is not alone.

OAKLAND — In a devastating blow to the East Bay’s alternative weekly newspaper, the East Bay Express on Friday laid off one-third of total employees, including its entire editorial staff except Editor Robert Gammon.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/01/...off-on-friday/

[dtran103]

Originally Posted by Cinema Cat

I picked up an L.A. Weekly for the first time in several years. I was astonished at how much it had shrunk. Much smaller, and only 20 pages. Very little editorial content. The internet has really hurt the paper. Taken away much of its classified ad revenue.

I remember reading the L.A. Weekly thirty years ago. A thick paper, full of ads, investigative reporting, underground cartoons.

They got rid of all of their hired writers. What you read are now all submissions from the public. Not a very good business model, I’d say. But we’ll see if it goes under or gets sold again in the next few years.

[Spikett]

It's changed hands several time in the past, and each new owner had a different agenda. I stopped reading it years ago because I just didn't find it interesting anymore. I like investigative journalism and they switched more to an arts focus - but, hey, that's just me.

Of course, all newspapers are hurting. I rememb the LA Times winning 4 Pulitzers back in the mid-200s for their coverage of one of the big fires. I read those stories and they were amazingly good.

I know it's a bit off topic, but I find that online versions of any print media are full of typos, inaccuracies, etc. I think it's because they are in such a hurry to post the stories. Sad.

[Cinema Cat]

Originally Posted by CA4Now

The L.A. Weekly is not alone.

OAKLAND — In a devastating blow to the East Bay’s alternative weekly newspaper, the East Bay Express on Friday laid off one-third of total employees, including its entire editorial staff except Editor Robert Gammon.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/01/...off-on-friday/

The Forward just announced they're shutting their print edition: https://nypost.com/2019/01/16/storie...ear-print-run/


The Forward is stopping — its print editions.

The storied Jewish-American publication is suspending its print operations and plans to lay off about 40 percent of its editorial staff — including Editor-in-Chief Jane Eisner — while moving to digital-only.

A print publication for 121 years, The Forward will continue to produce an English-language and a Yiddish-language edition online.