one newspaper drops the paper
February 8th, 2008 at 07:55am Jennie Pollock
(if you’ve seen one newsroom, you’ve seen ‘em all — photo of the newsroom courtesy of the capital times…)
the capital times in madison is pretty much going web-only.
the afternoon newspaper with about 17,000 circulation will make the change in april and cut back its staff accordingly (a number of reductions likely will be copy editors who deal with print — but just so you know, copy editors normally are and continue to be in high demand, especially ones who work on multiple platforms).
the cap times will maintain two weekly tabloid products that will go to racks but also subscribers of the bigger mad-city newspaper, the wisconsin state journal, with which the cap times already has a partnership.
this story is attracting national attention because it’s considered to be the first newspaper of prominence to go this way.
Entry Filed under: Web-only, Ditching print
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