(Community Matters) I don’t want to see the demise of locals or nationals either. And, I disagree with Leonard Pitts that Kwame Kilpatrick & Larry Craig wouldn’t be taken down without a local daily. Experiments are underway around the country taking dailies to exclusively online. Sites such as BOR would undoubtedly step up – we just have to figure out an economic model & bring journalistic conflict of interest standards to those sites. Wikipedia lists the Austin American Statesman’s circulation at 174k daily, 216k on Sunday – obviously there’s huge demand that would transfer to a more economic business model (sorry JT) if deployed – and one would deploy, rest assured.
from reports, we’re close to having new owners at the AAS. As John Thornton notes in Insomniactive, the San Diego Union was just purchased by a private equity firm so there are still investors envisioning a profitable model – suppose we’ll know in what configuration soon enough
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