Like print news everywhere, the Naples Daily News has been struggling. Last year they abandoned their massive and rather new printing press and outsourced the printing of the newspaper to a Sarasota affiliate.
Last month they sold their eleven year ol building to Naples Community Hospital. NCH plans to move some administrative functions into the first floor. NDN will lease space on the second floor.
In 2000, the NDN newsroom had more than 100 staff members. In 2009, the newsroom roster declined to about 80 before the Daily News moved into this office. Now, fewer than 25 journalists remain employed at the local newspaper.
The Naples newspaper has declined from its peak press run of more than 107,000 newspapers years ago to what is estimated to be fewer than 40,000 daily newspapers today.
That is a very sad saga, Jack.
ReplyDeleteIt is sad to see the decline of print journalism, but fewer and fewer people actually read newspapers, and their main source of income, advertising, has gone elsewhere. Watergate brought many people into journalism, but I doubt the Washington insurrection will have the same result.
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