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Reach is cutting the journalism it now needs readers to buy
Digital revenue fell 20.3% in the third quarter. Reach is right to pursue paying readers, but its latest cuts expose the hardest part of the transition: preserving the reporting that makes a subscription worth renewing.
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Reach needs readers to put a higher value on its journalism at the same time as it is reducing the number of people producing it. That is the uncomfortable commercial question behind the job losses. A paywall can be installed. The knowledge, contacts and judgement that give readers a reason to pay take considerably longer to build.
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McClatchy cuts California reporters as it builds an AI newsroom
Lay-offs at The Fresno Bee, The Sacramento Bee and The Modesto Bee are fuelling fears that automation will replace the journalists who cover local communities.
McClatchy Media is pressing ahead with an aggressive artificial intelligence strategy even as it cuts deeper into its California newsrooms, a combination that has intensified anxiety among journalists over what will remain of local reporting if the people who know their communities are removed and machine-written copy takes their place.
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Reach to cut 220 editorial jobs and close three local news sites
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Norwegian media giants unite to challenge FINN.no's classifieds dominance
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People Inc accelerates diversification as digital growth continues
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