Comments on: Small Town Papers Mean Big Money http://www.businesspundit.com/small-town-papers-mean-big-money/ Entrepreneurship, Startup Companies and Business Philosophy Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:09:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Lewis Green http://www.businesspundit.com/small-town-papers-mean-big-money/comment-page-1/#comment-1950 Lewis Green Mon, 12 Feb 2007 19:11:33 +0000 http://www.businesspundit.com.php5-6.websitetestlink.com/?p=3050#comment-1950 Rob, My first job out of college was as a reporter then as an editor. So my comment is based on both my Journalism degree and my work as a writer/journalist. I think that small town papers aren't doing anything new or original. In fact, I bet they are doing something very old and unoriginal, by covering local news and planting lots of local names and photos. It's not a secret that people buy their local paper (including those papers in towns with 100,000 residents up to big city numbers) to read local news. I recently unsubscribed from my local paper (circulation 100,000+) because it covers local news poorly. If I want to know what's going on elsewhere, I'll read the NYT or the WSJ. So, if it isn't a secret that subscribers want local news, why don't papers cover local more aggressively? To do so requires reporters instea0d of syndicated wires and it costs more. Rob,

My first job out of college was as a reporter then as an editor. So my comment is based on both my Journalism degree and my work as a writer/journalist.

I think that small town papers aren’t doing anything new or original. In fact, I bet they are doing something very old and unoriginal, by covering local news and planting lots of local names and photos.

It’s not a secret that people buy their local paper (including those papers in towns with 100,000 residents up to big city numbers) to read local news.

I recently unsubscribed from my local paper (circulation 100,000+) because it covers local news poorly. If I want to know what’s going on elsewhere, I’ll read the NYT or the WSJ.

So, if it isn’t a secret that subscribers want local news, why don’t papers cover local more aggressively? To do so requires reporters instea0d of syndicated wires and it costs more.

]]> By: laurence haughton http://www.businesspundit.com/small-town-papers-mean-big-money/comment-page-1/#comment-1949 laurence haughton Sun, 11 Feb 2007 16:40:37 +0000 http://www.businesspundit.com.php5-6.websitetestlink.com/?p=3050#comment-1949 400 papers and $23 million in profits. Is my calculator broken or is that less than an average of $60,000 per paper per year (about $5k a month.) Have you ever seen all the work that it takes to publish a paper? And at those returns a couple of bad month and you're bouncing payroll checks. BTW it's just as hard to make money in the UP as it is in Detroit. 400 papers and $23 million in profits. Is my calculator broken or is that less than an average of $60,000 per paper per year (about $5k a month.) Have you ever seen all the work that it takes to publish a paper? And at those returns a couple of bad month and you’re bouncing payroll checks. BTW it’s just as hard to make money in the UP as it is in Detroit.

]]> By: mehdi hassan http://www.businesspundit.com/small-town-papers-mean-big-money/comment-page-1/#comment-1948 mehdi hassan Sun, 11 Feb 2007 10:42:02 +0000 http://www.businesspundit.com.php5-6.websitetestlink.com/?p=3050#comment-1948 In big cities in USA the competition is very intense. News papers have to work a lot to keep themselves profitable. However,in distant small towns it is a different thing . It is just a trend and Fortress has understood it and took advantage of the situation In big cities in USA the competition is very intense. News papers have to work a lot to keep themselves profitable. However,in distant small towns it is a different thing . It is just a trend and Fortress has understood it and took advantage of the situation

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