As the Globe Turns
As the Globe Turns
By Jack Shafer
Posted Thursday, June 11, 2009 - 9:55am
There may be a way to save regional newspapers, like the Boston Globe, but no one wants to talk about it.
They should accept that non-news readers have stopped reading dailies, accept that newspapers can no longer satisfy everybody all the time with an "all-you-can-eat" buffet, and concentrate on publishing content of higher value. And they should "peel back" to their core functions of news, investigation, analysis, and interpretation "in a print product that appears less than daily, combined with constant updating and reader interaction on the Web."
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