Doomsday: Mainstream Media

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This page is part of the "Big Stories" page linked at the sidebar at the right. "The Doomsday Chronicles" track a number of sectors, including mainstream media.

November 13, 2019: Sports Illustrated, a weekly as recently as 2015, will become a monthly in 2020.

July 23, 2018: the "struggling" Daily News is about to go under?

The cuts at the teetering tabloid, which some insiders feared would range as high as 70 percent of staff, are expected to be among the largest in the paper’s 99-year history — and could include editor-in-chief Jim Rich.

March 17, 2018: Breitbart summarizes how bad things have gotten for the media (the link won't work; the blogger app won't link Breitbart) --

• start with the Denver Post, which announced Thursday that, between April 9 and July 1, 30 jobs will be cut from its newsroom. That is a massive 30 percent cut of its current staff of 100 journalists.  Just 10 years ago according to the far-left Washington Post, the Denver Post employed 600 journalists. That is close to a 90 percent reduction in only a decade.
• Chicago Tribune; hours later, another wave of surprise layoffs hit the Chicago Tribune; fourteen newsroom staffers were let go int eh publication's second round of layoffs in less than six months; back in October (2017) more than a dozen were let go; more cuts expected
• San Jose Mercury News: last month, another round of layoffs; as many as 27 laid off or bought out
• East Bay Times: late January (2018), a quarter of its editorial staff wiped out -- layoffs and buy outs; a total of 28 staffers
• five publications owned by Southern California News Group will face "significant layoffs," including OC Rgister and Los Angeles Daily News
• CNN: in a credibility death spiral; 
• this summarizes things quite nicely:

Consider the fact that the media that protected Bill Clinton — a man who as president committed perjury to cover up his sexual affair with a young intern, an affair conducted just a few rooms away from his wife and daughter in the  Oval Office — is now obsessed over a porn star’s story that she might have had a consensual affair with Trump more than a decade ago.

When women credibly accused Clinton of rape, groping, and harassment, our media joined the White House in destroying them as liars. But this same media hoping to turn a 12-year-old consensual relationship into a national scandal.

March 14, 2018: The Denver Post will cut a third of its newsroom staff. 

December 9, 2017: The owner of the Boston Herald newspaper has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy and is putting itself up for sale, with a $5 million starting offer from GateHouse Media.
The feisty, conservative tabloid, which dates back to 1846, cited the growth of alternative media sources and erosion of advertising revenue in print media for the need to seek bankruptcy protection.

October 18, 2017: Time, Inc., to cut 200 jobs; half in the editorial division.

September 29, 2017: WSJ to end print editions of the European and the Asian WSJ.

September 23, 2017: the demise of the glossy magazine -- The New York Times.  The link sent to me by a reader; I saw the headline but forgot to post the story. Highlighted: Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair. Not mentioned: such magazines as O (Oprah).