Sayonara, Oregonian

[SlyPokerDog]

My first job as a 13 year old was with the Oregonian. Sad day. Sad day, indeed.

I didn't know the Oregonian had a child porn section of the paper.

 

[PapaG]

But they haven't found a way to charge for it. They're getting undercut by online news services and their editorial content can't break even.

The only advantage print paper still has in in coupons/ads. Until you can convince businesses to go 100% online in advertising, and have customers print out coupons, there will be a market (diminished, albeit) for newsprint. Or, convince advertisers that they don't need coupons in print, but Groupon and Living Social aren't exactly turning a profit, either.

 

[ABM]

The only advantage print paper still has in in coupons/ads. Until you can convince businesses to go 100% online in advertising, and have customers print out coupons, there will be a market (diminished, albeit) for newsprint. Or, convince advertisers that they don't need coupons in print, but Groupon and Living Social aren't exactly turning a profit, either.

I'm seeing more and more coupons via phone. I use my digital (and personalized, to boot) Safeway coupons all the time.

 

[PapaG]

I'm seeing more and more coupons via phone. I use my digital (and personalized, to boot) Safeway coupons all the time.

That's a more targeted approach to advertising, though. Plus, Safeway is The Man!

 

[The_Lillard_King]

Apparently we are shortly away from the smart phone locating where you are and sending you notes and text for lunch specials in the area and coupons to local stores. Saw it on a documentary . . . my weak description doesn't give justice to how advanced personal advertising is going to become.

 

[PHXBlazer1]

I just turned 17...I don't even know what "the Oregonian" is...but if you want news you guys should just go to oregonlive.com...jah Rastafari!

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

How many people were employed making "buggy whip? . . . 10?

Ah, yes, but think of all the kinksters who use them nasty buggy whips...

 

[maxiep]

That's why they somehow need to reinvent themselves. With the advent of Yahoo and others, perhaps that's a lot easier said than done, though.

No one has found a model, yet. This form will unlikely be able to do so. They outsourced their core competencies (newsgathering) to groups like AP or UPI. So, what do they offer? Editorial content and feature writing that hasn't been shown to hold much value.

 

[maxiep]

The only advantage print paper still has in in coupons/ads. Until you can convince businesses to go 100% online in advertising, and have customers print out coupons, there will be a market (diminished, albeit) for newsprint. Or, convince advertisers that they don't need coupons in print, but Groupon and Living Social aren't exactly turning a profit, either.

I get unsolicited coupon books in my mailbox all the time. Hell, even the classifieds have gotten killed by Craigslist.

Print journalism will go local, not regional. The Pamplins have the right model. Large papers like the Oregonian are the walking dead.

 

[MARIS61]

The jig is up and the Oregonian is now circling the bowl and about to float out to sea. They’re moving out of their half empty building, limiting paper delivery before discontinuing all together in the near future and will charge to use their website ($5/week in a special website for current subscribers). And with all the TV news stations hosting free sites, how do they expect this to sustain itself? All this before they close for good.

And with good reason.

I don’t know if you read the Oregonian anymore but typos and other misspelled words are common where they never used to exist. The reporters are of generally low quality and pretty much all they do are meaningless interviews. Substantially better and more in-depth information is available on various blogs and websites (note I am NOT saying on S2- Sorry, Denny).

So sayonara, Oregonian. You were really never much of a newspaper to begin with.

Actually, it was one of the best in the nation when I was young. The MIC gradually siezed control of all major media over the last 40 years.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

Actually, it was one of the best in the nation when I was young. The MIC gradually siezed control of all major media over the last 40 years.

The two main problems I have had with the Oregonian over the last 20 years are a general lack of quality sports reporting and the fact it has lost nealy all objectivity politically, if not all. I mean, I get the fact a newspaper to a certain degree reflects the thoughts of those who read it, but that doesn't mean it needs to be the blind champion of political causes. Personally I feel WW is more objective in it's reporting and it's a flat our rag.

 

[Wheels]

Presses, electricity, ink, cleanup chemicals, water, delivery fuel, hydrocarbons.....the list goes on....

how much of those things are needed to create cell phones?