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Sometimes it sucks to be right. Just yesterday I posted a column after a great deal of historical research and astrological calculation, thought and heavy-heartedness, stating that the life cycle for daily home-delivered print newspapers was over. Today the Baltimore Examiner, a sister publication of this very website, announced that it will close after its Feb. 15 edition, leaving 90 employees out of work.
While that is only one newspaper, the closure offers uncomfortable verification that the upcoming changes in the industry will be fast and furious, as I predicted.
Clarity Media Group, the Denver-based company that owns the Baltimore Examiner, blamed a lack of advertising revenue and said it would concentrate its East Coast efforts on its Washington Examiner in D.C. and its West Coast efforts on its San Francisco Examiner. Clarity, owned by Philip F. Anschutz, launched the Baltimore paper 30 months ago based on an experimental model in which the paper was offered free and delivered to homes in affluent neighborhoods.
A great many other daily newspapers, based on the old model of subscriptions and home delivery, are also in trouble, and many of those ills are mentioned in the news stories today pegged to the announcement in Baltimore.
The decision to close was announced in a letter to Baltimore Examiner employees from Ryan McKibben, president and C.E.O. of Clarity. No mention was made in the announcement of any potential effects on Clarity's new-media experiment, this Examiner.com website.
The central contention of my column yesterday was that 12 years from now daily home-delivered newspapers will have become a memory and that over these next dozen years, more and more news organizations will switch to delivering daily news electronically or develop niche print products delivered by mail or published on a less frequent schedule.
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