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Item: Everyone’s a winner in press partnership: The paper you’re holding was printed on Nampa’s state-of-the-art press/Idaho Statesman
More Info: The expanded printing press at the Idaho Press-Tribune is one of a kind, said Production Director Roger Stowell, who ran the Statesman’s press for years and is now in charge of printing both papers at the press in Nampa. “There isn’t anybody doing what we’re doing,” Stowell said. DGM, a printing technology company, specially manufactured parts that allow the Pennsylvania-made press to print three pages side by side, he said. Other equipment allows for color on up to 30 pages in one daily edition, Stowell said.
Question: Newspapers are doing everything they can to survive the perfect storm of a decline in readership and advertising, and a poor economy. How confident are you that the Coeur d’Alene Press and Spokesman-Review can survive?
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moscow_minidoka on March 02 at 12:09 p.m.
In the Spokesman-Review’s case, doing everything it can to survive mostly means making the paper smaller and cutting customer service. A great survival strategy, that.
This weekend I had a late paper. I’m getting used to late papers since the SR closed their Pullman office. To my surprise, you can’t speak to a customer service rep on the weekends - you have to leave a message.
I will subscribe to a newspaper as long as they are printed. But I am running out of sympathy in the Spokesman’s case - every corner they cut makes me feel like I am paying for a diminishing product. I know I sound like a broken record, but I just want the paper to be decent and to be on my doorstep when I wake up. In my almost 15 years as an SR subscriber, I have NEVER had the problems with delivery etc that I have faced for the past month. It stinks, and it’s nobody’s fault but the Spokesman-Review.
Howard_Martinson on March 02 at 2:03 p.m.
I’m confident that the Press and the Spokesman will survive, however I have no idea what form they will be in.
Indeed, the newspaper industry is in a perfect storm - less readership leads to less subscription and advertising revenue which leads to less content which leads to less readership…