Going bi-
There's a new Willamette Week on the stands today, but there won't be one next week. The publication announced last week that it will be printing papers only every other week over the summer.
This July and August we will conduct a significant experiment with Willamette Week’s print edition. For two months, WW will publish a print edition every other week rather than weekly....
Each Wednesday, we’ll publish a significant enterprise story in our weekly newsletter, along with a full roster of culture features and reviews. Every other week, our papers should be a bit bigger—containing more stories than our normal weekly publication....
The first Wednesday you won’t see WW is July 1. Find us July 8 and 22 and Aug. 5 and 19 and back to regular weekly papers on Sept. 2.
It will be interesting to see how this plays out, with the new regime, supposedly temporary, starting pretty much today. Clearly they won't be printing the skipped editions out on paper, but will they even be putting them together in a pdf-like format, such as they do here?
What, less horoscope? Less Dr. Know?
Any contraction of media activity in Portland is worrisome. This one seems modest and relatively benign, but still, the news could be better. Let's hope it's not a harbinger of worse to come.
I always liked the Chance Meeting section. I guess they still haven't found out why Johnny can't read...
ReplyDeleteInk on paper is DOA; everyone in legacvy media knows it--but they're so trapped in their old paradigm that they can't go cold turkey. The Oregonian is similarly pathetic: they actually send out emails of what their front page would have looked like on days they don't publish. (Hint: just as boring as days they do.)
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