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