What Future for the Main Line Times?
- Access to all of our posts and comments
- Your own profile including an avatar, buddy lists, and other social networking features
- The ability to send private messages to other users on this site
- The ability to chat and interact with other citizens and voters in and around Lower Merion.
(Don't live in Lower Merion? That's okay. We won't hold it aginst you.)
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Main Line Times parent, the Journal Register Company, is planning to emerge from bankruptcy on April 17 by way of a sale for $120 million to an affiliated investment fund called 21st CMH Acquisition Co. WARN Act notices have gone out to all employees saying that they may be laid off on April 17. Whether or not they are rehired will be up to the new owner. One can only fervently hope that our local paper, with its outstanding local staff including the incomparable Cheryl Allison, Rich Ilgenfritz, and Pete Bannan will be able to survive this latest assault. For details, see this: http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20130222/NEWS/130229960/bankruptcy-court-to-rule-on-journal-register-sale-844-michigan-media# |
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That's what they have been doing - focusing online.
The question is, do they have the advertising revenue to stay in business from their online presence?
Hard to say, but I hope so.
Otherwise, blogs will become that much more important in reporting local events/issues/news, but I'd certainly prefer the symbiotic relationship blogs have with MLMN and its reporters I have come to know and respect to remain.
Brotherhood of Thieves ~ As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
Ouch, that's rough. I feel sorry for the folks working there.
Frontpaged your post, BTW.
I do agree some of the local coverage is good. But I think the MLT as a whole is losing it's relevancy to a very big chunk of the usual demographic that in the past would have purchased a weekly paper copy.
Casual observations: Was in a dentist office this week, even the little old ladies (well, one little old lady) was sitting in the waiting room chair reading somehting on a iPad sized tablet.
People get their local news from different sources, Patch is one example, but the quality and the 'analysis' and the opinion is not in the same league as that which MLT has provided over the years. I can't really think of any social media channels at the moment, but this is the general direction. If the MLT new owners are savvy, maybe they reinvent themselves onto more of an online news source.