“Demand has gone down for printed newspapers, but the supply chain for providing newspapers in a printed format is collapsing faster than the natural interest in a printed newspaper.”
For local newspapers, print circulation has collapsed for every audience except retirees. That’s why the daily paper in The Villages, Florida (metro population 129,752) prints as many copies as the one in Atlanta (metro population 6,930,423).
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Benton, Joshua. "For print newspapers, one Florida retirement community is a better market than Atlanta, St. Louis, or Portland." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 28 Jun. 2022. Web. 26 Dec. 2024.
APA
Benton, J. (2022, Jun. 28). For print newspapers, one Florida retirement community is a better market than Atlanta, St. Louis, or Portland. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved December 26, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/06/for-print-newspapers-one-florida-retirement-community-is-a-better-market-than-atlanta-st-louis-or-portland/
Chicago
Benton, Joshua. "For print newspapers, one Florida retirement community is a better market than Atlanta, St. Louis, or Portland." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified June 28, 2022. Accessed December 26, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/06/for-print-newspapers-one-florida-retirement-community-is-a-better-market-than-atlanta-st-louis-or-portland/.
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