We spend our winters in Florida. I always read the Tampa Bay Times. In 2020, during the Covid pandemic, they went from a seven day publication to a twice a week publication. Wednesday and Sunday..

At home, I read The Globe & Mail. Ihope it doesn't  go away.

darcyh wrote:

It is sad that future generations will miss the gratifying experience of sitting down at a table with a fresh cup of coffee and a broadsheet newspaper. No pop ups or banner ads.

I pay for a superscription to the local paper and read it on my laptop but the experience is not the same. Reading it on tablet device is even less satisfying. 

The same goes for magazines. Hardly any in hard copy today. 

I have an e-reader and barely use it anymore, other than when traveling. Even with the unlit, ink-like display it's not quite the same as a book.
 

Dicky Doo wrote:

turkeytop wrote:

We spend our winters in Florida. I always read the Tampa Bay Times. In 2020, during the Covid pandemic, they went from a seven day publication to a twice a week publication. Wednesday and Sunday.

At home, I read The Globe & Mail. Ihope it doesn't  go away.

This just in; storm surge in Florida is running to nine feet.    it is rumoured that they will put the paper on hold until the mess can be cleaned up
That is almost as high as a one story building.


D.D. 
 

The Sudbury Star is one of the Northern Ontario newspaper ceasing print operation this month. I get a condensed  online version sent to my email free daily. I wonder now if they will try to charge for it. Their local political reporter has been doing hit stories to discredit the mayoral candidates running against the incumbent mayor, and deletes any negative comments made against said incumbent which I find really irritating. He has deleted at least 5 of my attempted posts so far where I said I felt some new blood at city hall would be a positive thing. The incumbent mayor is a former Liberal member of parliament who served one term before leaving federal politics to run for mayor here four years ago. His biggest competition is a woman who the reporter has been really trying to pile up the dirt on. I hope she cleans up in the election. 

One local newspaper publisher in Toronto expands on the challenges of keeping his edition going in the face of the Internet and a loss of interest in printed matter. 

But as he celebrates 10 years of his local paper, Rheostatics founder and now publisher Dave Bidini says it's been worth all the trouble to keep it going. 

"When I worked, briefly, for the Yellowknifer newspaper — one of the inspirations to start WEP — publisher Bruce Valpy used to say, “As long as someone is snipping a story from the paper and putting it on their fridge in yellowing Scotch tape, I know we’re doing OK.” There is an inherent friendliness to print."

Dave Bidini launched a local newspaper in 2016. Here’s what those 10 years taught him about community