Comments about ‘Newspapers must follow basics of journalism to survive’

We took the print paper for many years. We quit when the newspaper so obviously quit pretending to be an investigative, neutral source of information and started pushing a particular agenda. Maybe that is part of the problem newspapers are having.

I tried your email address (listed at the end of the article), but my message was returned--address was wrong.

The way I read this, newspapers need to continue — in whatever format we eventually end up in — for journalism to survive. Excellent article.

Agree, with W Martin.

I'll (no doubt) utilize newspapers (DN) as main source of information (local, sports, international, etc.) I enjoy certain comic strips in the "funny" papers. Subscribe to about 10 magazines and monthlies. Hard to always find time to read everything - plus TV, etc. So much out there.

One thing I don't particularly care for is the "fluff" lead in to many stories as I consider irrelevant and I usually am able to speed "read" down a few paragraphs. TV news is sometimes even worse with saying what they will have "next" and after several commercials comes out in 10 or 15 minutes. Sports, with their "...on the other side...." usually is about 15 mminutes. Might say we are being commercialized (to death).

I like to respond to a good article - usually be e-mail.

Thank you!

Like the author of this article I love reading the newspaper in the morning. I'm subscribed to uber-pricey Wall Street Journal and occasionally buy a local paper at the stand. I love to read historic issues of my town's paper at the library (AF). Oh, and I also own a Kindle e-book.

My DN subscription was not renewed because I didn't like how the first section was filled with AP news — news I already got online for free. But I liked the local reporting and opinion pages because they were specific to the paper.

The problem isn't that newspapers don't perform a wonderful service, the problem is the business model is busted.

Classifieds got killed by Craigslist. Only newspapers obituaries don't have a good digital competitor.

Local advertising got killed by Google, which offers superior targeting and tracking and better rates.

And subscriptions? Subscription models can still work but most likely for arcane information, ie. a Bloomberg terminal.

In short, the traditional three-legs of revenue that newspapers were built on have disappeared.