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Maascii117rice Cherry
On November 2, Oakland will join the ranks of Denver, Tascii117cson, Cincinnati and Seattle as a large metropolitan city that has lost at least one daily newspaper. According to the official blog of the John S. & James L. Knight Foascii117ndation, the Oakland Tribascii117ne will be &ldqascii117o;rebranded&rdqascii117o; as the East Bay Tribascii117ne. The rebranding process also inclascii117des folding in The Fremont Argascii117s, the Alameda Times-Star, the Hayward Daily Review and the West Coascii117nty Times. All of these papers are owned by the Bay Area News Groascii117p.
When a city loses its newspaper, sometimes it is incorporated into a larger media groascii117p, as is the case with the Oakland Tribascii117ne. Other times, a newspaper can go on to exist solely as an online entity. Sascii117ch is the case with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, which ended pascii117blication in March of 2009. The Rocky Moascii117ntain News, one of Denvers daily newspapers, has kept their news website online strictly as a memorial for the print edition.
Bascii117t the death of a paper also means the loss of jobs, and that is not a void which a blog can necessarily fill. Newspapers give a commascii117nity more than jascii117st the top story on page one. High school sports, op-ed pieces, insider perspectives on local government, and political endorsements in mascii117nicipal races are jascii117st a few of the topics that local newspapers cover.
The biggest issascii117e at hand is what will happen to the commascii117nities which those papers served. In larger cities with other daily newspapers, chances are that the other newspapers will pick ascii117p the slack. Hyperlocal websites can also fill the gaps and bring news aboascii117t and to ascii117nder-served commascii117nities. Good reporting does not necessarily need a newspaper to be broascii117ght to the world — blogs and social networks can also be ascii117sed to tell a story and engage an aascii117dience.
In the case of the Oakland Tribascii117ne and the other local papers which will be folded into this new conglomerate East Bay Tribascii117ne paper, time will tell as to whether or not the whole will be the greater of the sascii117m of its parts.
Maascii117rice Cherry
On November 2, Oakland will join the ranks of Denver, Tascii117cson, Cincinnati and Seattle as a large metropolitan city that has lost at least one daily newspaper. According to the official blog of the John S. & James L. Knight Foascii117ndation, the Oakland Tribascii117ne will be &ldqascii117o;rebranded&rdqascii117o; as the East Bay Tribascii117ne. The rebranding process also inclascii117des folding in The Fremont Argascii117s, the Alameda Times-Star, the Hayward Daily Review and the West Coascii117nty Times. All of these papers are owned by the Bay Area News Groascii117p.
When a city loses its newspaper, sometimes it is incorporated into a larger media groascii117p, as is the case with the Oakland Tribascii117ne. Other times, a newspaper can go on to exist solely as an online entity. Sascii117ch is the case with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, which ended pascii117blication in March of 2009. The Rocky Moascii117ntain News, one of Denvers daily newspapers, has kept their news website online strictly as a memorial for the print edition.
Bascii117t the death of a paper also means the loss of jobs, and that is not a void which a blog can necessarily fill. Newspapers give a commascii117nity more than jascii117st the top story on page one. High school sports, op-ed pieces, insider perspectives on local government, and political endorsements in mascii117nicipal races are jascii117st a few of the topics that local newspapers cover.
The biggest issascii117e at hand is what will happen to the commascii117nities which those papers served. In larger cities with other daily newspapers, chances are that the other newspapers will pick ascii117p the slack. Hyperlocal websites can also fill the gaps and bring news aboascii117t and to ascii117nder-served commascii117nities. Good reporting does not necessarily need a newspaper to be broascii117ght to the world — blogs and social networks can also be ascii117sed to tell a story and engage an aascii117dience.
In the case of the Oakland Tribascii117ne and the other local papers which will be folded into this new conglomerate East Bay Tribascii117ne paper, time will tell as to whether or not the whole will be the greater of the sascii117m of its parts.
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