Friday, April 17, 2020

Pandemic Crisis hits SF Chronicle

Local Newspapers Are Dying — Here And Around The NationNewspapers--especially the print editions--were having a tough time. Before the Coronavirus pandemic hit.

And now,  the major newspapers are dying fast

Industry people tell me the Chronicle is losing close to $52  a million a week--do the math: that's over 50 million a year. All you need to know about the Chronicle and its fortunes is to take a look and feel its print edition: thinner and thinner by the day.

Tough situation.
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12 comments:

  1. AnonymousApril 17, 2020 at 2:10 PM

    I did the math like you said and, well, I get a different answer.

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    1. AnonymousApril 17, 2020 at 2:42 PM

      That's why he went into journalism rather than theoretical physics :)

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  2. AnonymousApril 17, 2020 at 3:16 PM

    I would validate that math. My understanding is that the Chronicle (like the NY Times and a few others) is a doing fine financially...primarily because they have a large number of subscribers (like me) who still like to get a hard copy newspaper delivered to their driveway everyday. The old advertising model has been replaced by a pay (very expensive for home delivery) subscription model, which is how the Chronicle now generates revenue. Unfortunately, there are not many papers that can survive this way.

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  3. AnonymousApril 17, 2020 at 4:39 PM

    Yeah maybe the Chronicle is losing money but between the Chronicle, The Wall St Journal and the New York Times (Sunday only) I'm paying around $1,500/year for my papers. My bad for not liking e-subscriptions but I'm getting tired of eating macaroni and cheese to support print media.

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  4. AnonymousApril 17, 2020 at 10:40 PM

    The EIC just okayed TV ads for the Chronicle. One aired during Circle 7's newscasts this afternoon. Okayyy.

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  5. AnonymousApril 18, 2020 at 9:05 AM

    Newspapers are dinosaurs. Very shortly they will all go the way of the buffalo. The SF Comical is one of the worst fish wraps in the country and always has been.

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  6. AnonymousApril 18, 2020 at 11:24 AM

    Physical papers are money losers, but their online versions are much cheaper to produce and get much wider distribution. Don’t count out “the papers”. Why would someone like Jeff Bezos purchase the Washington Post? The dude didn’t get rich by playing politics.

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  7. AnonymousApril 18, 2020 at 12:48 PM

    The SF Chronicle will be bought out by McClatchy Newspapers.
    Can you say San Francisco Bee ?

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  8. AnonymousApril 18, 2020 at 1:01 PM

    The SF Chronicle was losing a million a week or 52 million a year when they closed their SF printing plant. Our local paper is laid out and set up in India.

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  9. AnonymousApril 18, 2020 at 2:09 PM

    Good, it's a terrible biased "Rag" I'm looking forward to it going under and it will.

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  10. AnonymousApril 18, 2020 at 8:20 PM

    I enjoy reading the on line editions on my Commodore 64!! I archive some of them on to my floppy disk!!!

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  11. AnonymousApril 19, 2020 at 2:42 PM

    Some of the Chronicle's sports writers are lucky to still be getting a check instead of collecting unemployment

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