The Future of Washington State Newspapers


Written: Dec 15, 2008

As the rest of the newspaper industry begins to unravel; the only savior is the technology that beat the newspapers to a pulp. What will not die as quickly is local news stations. Washington newspapers need to let themselves be acquired by local news stations with the larger affiliates of NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX...etc and turn their daily efforts into mass content releases for their [newspaper audience] online. Gone are the days of newspaper layout editors...once the web site creators have created the template there would be no need to rearrange it. Take for example Yahoo's home page or MSN.com's home page...these sites change thier home page layouts every 6 to 12 months. That technology would already save newspapers the $45,000 dollar a year salary they paid thier layout editor. With rapid content syndication through Twitter, Facebook, Digg...etc the Associated Press (AP) too will allow more content into thier massive content syndication to be broadcast in all forms all over the web.

Here is the roll up of Some Newspapers Across the State:

Tri-City Herald rolls into KDNU.com
Seattle Times rolls into KING5.com
Daily Record rolls into KIMATV.com

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