Thursday, May 20, 2010

Newspaper death watch


The devastating list of U.S. metropolitan dailies that have gone out of business since March 2007:

Tucson Citizen
Rocky Mountain News
Baltimore Examiner
Kentucky Post
Cincinnati Post
King County Journal
Union City Register-Tribune
Halifax Daily News
Albuquerque Tribune
South Idaho Press
San Juan Star
Honolulu Advertiser

Former print dailies that have adopted hybrid online/print or online-only models:

Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Capital Times
Detroit News/Free Press
Christian Science Monitor
East Valley Tribune
Ann Arbor News
Flint Journal; Bay City Times; Saginaw News
Catskill Daily Mail & Hudson Register-Star

Click on the headline if you want to follow the trail of dead newspaper bodies.

Where is it safe to be working on a newspaper today: Well, a collector of such information has NO reports of layoffs at newspapers in North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Wyoming and Idaho, contiguous states.

The only problem: You have to live in North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Wyoming or Idaho.

To see the map of layoffs by newspapers, go to

http://newspaperlayoffs.com

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