{"id":934,"date":"2010-06-12T14:16:32","date_gmt":"2010-06-12T18:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/?p=934"},"modified":"2010-06-12T14:16:32","modified_gmt":"2010-06-12T18:16:32","slug":"the-future-of-newspapers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2010\/06\/the-future-of-newspapers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future of Newspapers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to know about the future of newspapers, you might look at the ones that are thriving rather than the ones that are struggling or collapsing. I learned recently that there is at least one fairly new, very successful newspaper company &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Metro_International\">Metro International.<\/a> With a price point of zero for their tabloids, they offer advertising-rich layouts and tiny stories that (for clarity&#8217;s sake) don&#8217;t jump to other pages. It&#8217;s the newspaper equivalent of that gag on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suck.com\"><i>Suck.com<\/i><\/a> where Terry drew a Web page full of advertising that had a tiny &#8220;content banner.&#8221; (Wish I could find it &#8230; but at least <i>Suck.com<\/i> is still online, for those who want to look.) Having recently read about this newsprint wunderkind, I picked up this weekend&#8217;s issue to see what they actually write <i>Metro<\/i> stories about&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-content\/stuff\/sockington_snippet.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Sockington&#039;s owner Jason Scott in Metro\" width=\"200\" height=\"223\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-933\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-content\/stuff\/sockington_metro.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-content\/stuff\/sockington_metro.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Sockington greets commuters \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-932\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My friend&#8217;s cat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to know about the future of newspapers, you might look at the ones that are thriving rather than the ones that are struggling or collapsing. I learned recently that there is at least one fairly new, very successful newspaper company &#8211; Metro International. With a price point of zero for their tabloids, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2010\/06\/the-future-of-newspapers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Future of Newspapers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[65,13],"class_list":["post-934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-news","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":936,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions\/936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}