Many of today’s metro newspapers are facing serious circulation problems they created for themselves.
Owned and managed by profit conscious investment groups, most large and medium-size city papers have stripped their newsrooms of reporters and editors and become dependent on corporate-produced feature articles to fill their pages.
Many groups have sold the publication’s familiar real estate locations, outsourced their ad and page design to distant locations and chosen to shut down their presses and have the paper printed at some far-off location that requires limiting the daily news and sports coverage to whatever happens before the middle of the afternoon the day before delivery.
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Peter W. Wagner is the founder/publisher of The N’West Iowa REVIEW. He lives in Sibley and may be reached at pww@iowainformation.com.
