Scaled-Back Newspapers Leave Older Readers Behind
Posted: 8/22/2012 | By: Gigi Douban | Marketplace
The newspaper world is still grappling with enormous
changes to its industry prompted by the Internet. Most recently,
several papers including the New Orleans Times-Picayune and three in
Alabama announced they would cut circulation to fewer than seven days a
week and shift their focus to online news delivery.
But there are plenty of people out there who don't want to get their
news online. Folks like Susan Leara, a 40-year subscriber to The
Birmingham News.