Joe Pompeo:<\/p>\n
The years 2008 and 2009 are remembered as exceedingly dark days for the media business. Between the digitally-fueled collapse of legacy revenue streams and the gruesome carnage of the financial crash, the industry began to endure pain and suffering like never before, from mass downsizings\u2014a hundred<\/span> <\/span><\/span>New York Times<\/em> <\/span><\/span>journalists<\/span> <\/span><\/span>here<\/a>, 1,400 McClatchy employees<\/span> <\/span><\/span>there<\/a>, and so on\u2014to newspapers and magazines going bankrupt or being shut down altogether: Farewell<\/span> <\/span><\/span>Rocky Mountain News<\/em> <\/span><\/span>and print edition of the<\/span> <\/span><\/span>Seattle Post-Intelligencer.<\/em> <\/span><\/span>RIP<\/span> <\/span><\/span>Radar, Gourmet,<\/em> <\/span><\/span>and<\/span> <\/span><\/span>Cond\u00e9 Nast Portfolio.<\/em> <\/span><\/span>(It would take too long to list all the titles that were shuttered.)<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joe Pompeo: The years 2008 and 2009 are remembered as exceedingly dark days for the media business. Between the digitally-fueled collapse of legacy revenue streams and the gruesome carnage of the financial crash, the industry began to endure pain and suffering like never before, from mass downsizings\u2014a hundred New York Times journalists here, 1,400 McClatchy employees there, and so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8000"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8001,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8000\/revisions\/8001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}