{"id":1517,"date":"2007-07-04T22:17:53","date_gmt":"2007-07-05T02:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/07\/04\/newspaper-of-the-past-and-future\/"},"modified":"2007-07-04T22:17:53","modified_gmt":"2007-07-05T02:17:53","slug":"newspaper-of-the-past-and-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/07\/04\/newspaper-of-the-past-and-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Newspaper of the past \u2014 and future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Shafer of Slate.com, a veteran journalist and all-around smart guy, has a great piece in which he looks at what newspapers were like decades ago &#8212; in terms of size, coverage, layout and staffing levels &#8212; and asks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2169763\/fr\/rss\/\">the provocative question<\/a>: <em>After the staff cuts, will the newspapers of the future look like the newspapers of the past?<\/em> What you think of the answer may depend on whether you work at a newspaper or not:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;By my personal measure, the national and foreign news published in the summer of 1972 by the Times and Post matches the current product, even though it is less &#8220;featurey.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>That both papers did fine work with half the current manpower should encourage serious readers\u00e2\u20ac\u201deven though it may depress journalists.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i>(Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robhyndman.com\">Rob<\/a> for the link)<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Shafer of Slate.com, a veteran journalist and all-around smart guy, has a great piece in which he looks at what newspapers were like decades ago &#8212; in terms of size, coverage, layout and staffing levels &#8212; and asks the provocative question: After the staff cuts, will the newspapers of the future look like the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/07\/04\/newspaper-of-the-past-and-future\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Newspaper of the past \u2014 and future&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}