GateHouse denies a Poynter report that the print edition of USA
Today, a staple in America for four decades because it is printed in locations
all over the country simultaneously, will be phased out.
Gannett owns USA Today. GateHouse, which seemingly controls about every
newspaper south of the New York Times and Washington Post in America, is
absorbing Gannett with the help of a $1.8 billion loan.
This spring at larger
circulation regionals, Gannett dropped a standalone section of USA Today news at
its 35 largest papers, eliminating hundreds of thousands of print copies.
USA Today circulation has
plummeted from 2.3 million in 2007, rivaling the Wall Street Journal in paid
circulation, to 178,00 in individually paid circulation.
The Seattle
Post-Intelligencer went all-digital in 2009. Papers all over America are going
to less than 7-day print editions.
GateHouse websites are
loaded with discussions of how switching to digital is saving millions of
dollars.
Who really believes that
USA Today and GateHouse, which owns the BJ and more than 250 newspapers and
hundreds of weeklys in at least 32 states, will stick with print editions
instead of transforming everything into digital editions?
Save your print editions of
the BJ. They may become rarer than 1950s baseball cards.
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