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Deseret News changes to address revenue decline

This almost makes me feel guilty for going online for my news these days. I appreciate the DN but I do think that the internet is the future. I hope the DN can survive enough to keep us informed. I much prefer the Dn to the Trib.

Fewer people and as Cannon said maintain the same content. It's not going to happen. I'm cancelling my subscription.

"We still expect to deliver what people have come to know as the Deseret News," Cannon said.

Come on, Joe, knock off your political spin and tell the truth. Anonymous 3:59 sees through your doublespeak and so do most of the rest of us.

I had zero responses from my Classified Ads placed in the D-News and SL-Trib. I quit running any Ads.

Craigslist is where I had great responses.

I'm not sure this info will make it online, but it is the truth.

Washington, D.C. coverage has already been from nonexistent to poor. One can already find more about what our congressional delegation is doing from out-of-state news sources.

Let's see. Joe Cannon ran Geneva Steel into the ground. Maybe he can do better with a newspaper... NOT!!

And I will look forward to reading my new four-page edition of the DN every day. Should take about 10 minutes.

Not sure this is the way to keep the paper afloat. Doesn't seem to do much to attract subscribers or readers. Fewer of those and why would the advertisers continue on?

I hope the best for DN. DN is one of the few papers that reports quality news while maintaining moral integrity. I would be disheartened if they ever discontinued their services.

Just like Geneva Steel--it looks like Cannon is running another business into the ground and laying off employees. Whats next, outsourcing the D-news to China or India? Thats where Geneva ended up.

To anonymous: You probably never had one. If this is not so, you are a bit presumptuous.

I'm sorry about the layoffs. However, I do feel the the internet is the future of news.

In 25 years, we will think it was ridiculous that we used to PAY someone to run by our house and throw a folded bundle of inky, cheap paper into our driveways or flower bushes. We'd open it up and search for anything interesting while our hands get ink all over them. After we're done with it, we PAY someone to come remove our paper mess for us. Ridiculous. More power to DN for the internet focus.

SL Libune, claims Dnews sanitizes its articles, Well the Libune is WAY left slant, I would rather have a conservative slant than Liberal. I have found the Dnews to be more fair sided on articles than Libune.

Your next Libune, get ready to X the staff.

With the internet and free classified adds such as KSL offers, I think the end is near for high priced printed classified.

Well, I might have to just stick with the WSJ if I'm not going to get the local business news. I don't want to read warmed-over AP business headlines in the A section.

Hopefully they laid off their morning web moderator. I'm getting sick of posts being censored for inane reasons (ie criticizing Chris Cannon's record or mentioning illegal immigration when an illegal alien is killed by an illegal alien gangster, but no name is reported)

I am sorry that the D.C Bureau will close and the DN will depend on wire sources for Washington news. In that sense it will be just another 2nd grade newspaper. The again, why should I worry? I stopped subscribing to local papers several years ago for that reason. I went to the WSJ as my source for national news as the content was so much more complete.
Locally I still like the DN over the SLT. Still there just isn't enough there to convince me it is worth a subscription. Sorry.

It's not because of online news readership, it's because clasified cost so dang much. $70.00 or so for 2 lines! That's why everyone is moving to the other Free local advertising source.

My heart goes out for all those who were laid off -- especially those who went involuntarily.
The only good news from this is that they will start giving me the real newspaper in Utah County with broader state and national coverage. I always wondered why they thought we only care about Utah County in Utah County. If we wanted the Provo Herald, we'd have taken the Herald.

Since you're online, you don't need a subscription anyway. The DN does thank you for the revenue, however.

This is a sign of the times. The Internet is the wave of the future for news-gathering services, like the D-News. The paper has to change with the world, and you can bet the hierarchy there is constantly looking for ways to adapt. The D-News will always be around. Eventually, you won't see a printed product, but an electronic version. The D-News' job is to report the news, and make it available to its readers. These days, it's just not as cost-effective to print it on paper and deliver it to our doorsteps as it used to be. The paper just needs to find new sources of revenue, and it has some time to figure that out. If you want to help the paper, perhaps you can think of what the paper can do - or provide - that people will pay for.