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While spending time on social media a few days ago, I happened to notice a recently-published article by a website maintained by Harvard University’s Nieman Foundation, Nieman Journalism Labs, which reports on digital media innovation.
And the piece had a striking title, to say the least: “Why do people still get print newspapers? Well, partly to start up the grill (seriously).”
I mean, it’s common knowledge that things in the journalism world are rough-going across the board right now. Lay-offs, consolidations of staff, closings. And that’s especially true in print media: newspapers, magazines, and sundry other publications made primarily of wood pulp and ink. It can’t help morale, then, to learn the very people you’re trying to reach with news content, and those