{"id":4224,"date":"2009-02-02T18:54:51","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T22:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/?p=4224"},"modified":"2009-02-02T18:54:51","modified_gmt":"2009-02-02T22:54:51","slug":"newspaper-cutbacks-the-good-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2009\/02\/02\/newspaper-cutbacks-the-good-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Newspaper cutbacks: The good news?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the risk of being burned at the stake by my fellow journalists, I wanted to pass along a thought that occurred to me recently about the wave of layoffs and mass firings that has been rolling through newsrooms across North America &#8212; namely, what if this is actually a good thing? Please, hear me out before you arrive at my doorstep with pitchforks and torches.<\/p>\n<p>In order to agree with me, you would have to admit that there are a lot of newspapers (and I know of many personally) that haven&#8217;t been moving quite as quickly as they might towards an online future. To a large extent, these papers have been insulated from the need to change by a healthy cash balance, a lock on local advertising markets, a magnanimous owner, a sense of entitlement, etc. (feel free to pick more than one). <\/p>\n<p>What better way to force some change than by administering a large but hopefully non-lethal shock to the system?<\/p>\n<p><i>(read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niemanlab.org\/2009\/02\/newspaper-staff-cuts-good-news\/\">rest of this post<\/a> at the Nieman Journalism Lab)<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the risk of being burned at the stake by my fellow journalists, I wanted to pass along a thought that occurred to me recently about the wave of layoffs and mass firings that has been rolling through newsrooms across North America &#8212; namely, what if this is actually a good thing? Please, hear me &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2009\/02\/02\/newspaper-cutbacks-the-good-news\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Newspaper cutbacks: The good news?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-4224","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\/4224","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=4224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}