Have you stopped reading the newspaper in print?
The media journal Editor & Publisher asked that as its Question of the Day on its online site last Thursday, and the query made us curious about STLtoday.com readers.
E&P got a mix of responses, some saying they read newspapers for local news and go online for other news.
Some said they distrusted newspapers: “With print, all you have is what they tell you, which recent history has proven is quite limited if not false.”
One newspaper reader’s answer was hardly an endorsement:
“Have I stopped reading newspapers? Of course not. But I do find myself enjoying them less. The bite seems to have gone out of too many of them as they seek ways to stay alive by resorting to strategies that do not work. Perhaps my sense of deprivation stems in part from the automatic “where’s the rest?” feeling I get each morning when I pick up the four newspapers I normally read and find them literally lightweight, and, later,content light.”
So, with all credit due Editor & Publisher, we pose the same question:
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Steve Parker is the deputy managing editor for news, and oversees the Post-Dispatch's front page. STLtoday's online news editors are on his newsroom team. Parker has been at the paper since September 1980. 
I get the Thursday-Sunday Post deal delivered. I plan my Sunday mornings with the Sunday Post, John Ulet playing “oldies” on KSHE and my coffee. Its my time. I would like to see some longer articles, where the writer can go deeper into the issues. When I was younger, I would read the Globe in the morning/break and the Post when I got home from work.
Finan… Thought your name sounded familiar. I dated someone for a bit from the EI.
If you think newspapers have a problem, look at the dinasour media stations newscasts (ABC, NBC, & ABC) numbers.
http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/evening_news_ratings/new_alltime_lows_for_both_cbs_abc_evening_newscasts_119684.asp
Yes,I,m a subscriber to the PD,but here’s a tip I told before.Print the general instrest and feature stuff in the printed paper a few days before you put it on your internet site.Gave the readers a good reason to buy the PD if they already have internet access.
There’s no better place to read the paper then on the CHINA Throne.
It’s my way of sending the message that the content of the material in the paper, is just as important as what’s going to be given back to our environment vie the sewer system.