Newspaper Industry Decline

Spot on. News publishers have been suffering from declining ads revenue for years. They needed to pivot to something anyhow.

It's not just newspapers. Journalism as a whole is shrinking rapidly. Concerns over privacy and personalized advertising will have long terms impacts on ad revenue. Ad revenue is the primary way through which journalism is funded. Unless you have a great brand like the Economist, or the Wall Street Journal you're in trouble. To do well you now have to write content that people are willing to pay for. That's a pretty high bar to reach.

Newspaper are an excellent example as well.https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-03-26/alden-...

To me it seems like this is the symptom of a dying industry, the newspaper industry. I can't think of many people who are willing to pay for newspapers or news websites, let alone watch their ads(!). Eventually these papers are for-profit businesses so it's either go bankrupt, or find a way to make money no matter what. It seems that those who survived so far, are picking the latter, each to its own extent.Hopefully, there'd be a new, sensible way of earning money for decent fr

Newspapers destroyed themselves by discontinuing their core product.

This is not true. Newspapers are dying because the marginal cost of distributing the content is almost zero. There is no other good way to make money off of news content besides advertising. And note that newspapers were already making a significant portion of their revenue from advertising. The failings of the newspaper business model have almost nothing to do with Google.

So? remove NYTimes.com & Boston.com from the newsfeeds and screenshots and re-submit, should be fine.In the end this will only hurt the NYT since they get less readers. I honestly dont get these 'failing newspapers' they cry about not making enough money, but when you get people interested in their product they start complaining.

Traditionally, the newspaper business was about delivering unique information quicker than other newspapers (or, in the case of local newspapers, delivering unique information that wasn't available elsewhere). Newspapers are dying because in an environment where instantaneous content delivery is done at essentially zero cost, fewer and fewer people are willing to pay for undifferentiated content. The author is confusing cause and effect - circumventing popup blockers and failing to invest into c

Find a major metropolitan newspaper from 1990. Print would be best, so that you can feel the heft. Now compare it to the same newspaper (if it exists) today. Print advertising did not become illegal, just uneconomical. Now consider what happens to the entities that now run on advertising. Do they survive?

print is a sunset industry. news is not. the ny times is about news, hence the apps and online deals they have.and just in case you think that's not enough, it's more of a revenue model than instagram had.