{"id":4429,"date":"2012-03-17T16:04:23","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T22:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4429"},"modified":"2012-03-17T16:04:23","modified_gmt":"2012-03-17T22:04:23","slug":"bleak-outlook-for-us-newspapers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4429","title":{"rendered":"Bleak outlook for US newspapers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/0\/3eef0bc4-6f73-11e1-9c57-00144feab49a.html#axzz1pNUAkeXQ\"> Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson<\/a>:  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><I>The headlines about the US newspaper industry have never been so bleak.<\/p>\n<p>In recent weeks, LinkedIn, the networking website, and the Council of Economic Advisers have reported that the press is \u201cAmerica\u2019s fastest-shrinking industry\u201d, measured by jobs lost; the Newspaper Association of America has shown that advertising sales have halved since 2005 and are now at 1984\u2019s level; and the Pew Research Center has found that for every digital ad dollar they earned, they lost $7 in print ads.<\/p>\n<p>As media from television to billboards bounce back from the recession, newsprint is being left behind. Zenith Optimedia this week predicted that internet advertising would pass newspaper advertising next year around the world \u2013 but in the US, where internet penetration is high and newspaper audiences are shrinking, digital will overtake newspapers\u2019 and magazines\u2019 combined ad sales this year, eMarketer estimates.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson: The headlines about the US newspaper industry have never been so bleak. In recent weeks, LinkedIn, the networking website, and the Council of Economic Advisers have reported that the press is \u201cAmerica\u2019s fastest-shrinking industry\u201d, measured by jobs lost; the Newspaper Association of America has shown that advertising sales have halved since 2005 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}