The changing newsroom
I've read a number of reports about the latest survey of newspaper editors by Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism. I haven't read the actual report yet, and I'll get to it, but the stories seem consistent.
We march right along with most of what the other papers report: smaller staff, smaller newshole, less world news, more local emphasis, more movement to digital.
One point to make before I read the whole thing. Some commentators bemoan the cut back in space devoted to international news. We scaled back some years ago because our research showed that a vast majority of readers said they got that elsewhere. Why use the newsprint to give readers something that they don't look to us to provide?
(I was surprised that 15% of newspapers over 100,000 reported not having reduced their staffs over the past three years. I wonder where those papers are. I know they aren't in N.C.)