How the Guardian improbably put itself on the path to profits

Re:How the Guardian improbably put itself on the path to pro... by alkonaut on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @03:04AM (#16263671)

This. And local news will have to jump on this too, and form groups with national/global.

A NyT/Guardian type outlet can live through subscriptions. A local newspaper could thrive in a city with 100k people and decent ad market - but not now that Facebook eats their lunch. That’s the problem that desperately needs solving.

I’d love to pay for e.g a guardian sub that includes personalized local bits from my country, city etc.

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Re:How the Guardian improbably put itself on the path to pro... by dragonwriter on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @03:54AM (#16263859)

> And local news will have to jump on this too, and form groups with national/global.

Local news already is largely owned by a few very large conglomerates, which often also own major national outlets. In fact, that's a big part of what was killing newspapers long before the internet came along to help; those conglomerates cut local newsrooms to the bone as cost cutting measures to boost short-term numbers, turning local newspapers into a thin layer of local customization over shared (often mostly wire-service, even the national news desks at the papers were cut deeply) content.

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Re:How the Guardian improbably put itself on the path to pro... by dazc on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @03:10AM (#16263698)

Ironically, The Guardian used to own a few regional publishers but sold them off in 2010. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Trust_Limited

Kudos to Neil44 for the link above.

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