Page One: The New York Times

One of the most interesting things to me in "Page One The New York Times" was the decline of print media. I had no idea that ad revenues had declined so much over the last several years. Recently former powerhouse papers like the Chicago Tribune have been forced to lay off hundreds employees in an attempt to remain profitable. In fact the valuations of major papers has plummeted throughout the last decade. This trend started with the advent of the internet but was accelerated by the Great Recession which caused ad revenue to plummet.  The New York Times has attempted to change its business model away from a reliance on ad revenue and instead make the company reliant on subscribers dues. A key part of this is making their website open only to scribers. However, this has only had limited success. One paper that has managed to be successful in the digital age is the Wall Street Journal. The Wall Street Journal has avoided this by always allowing only subscribers access to its' website, increasing its subscriber base, and increasing its ad growth. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal#Design_changes
http://www.forbes.com/sites/afontevecchia/2013/11/20/tribune-co-cutting-700-newspaper-jobs-amid-dropping-advertising-revenues/
http://www.cnbc.com/
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