The begining of the end...of the newspaper?

I have subscribed to a print version of a newspaper for a total of 2 years over my entire life. I subscribed to the Calgary Sun during the 2002-2003 basketball season as I was coaching, and I subscribed to the National Post in 2006. Both times I recycled and as I took boxes of papers to the big green bins I reflected on how many issues I did not even crack open and how many others I only scanned a section or two. I just do not have the time to read the paper.

I currently have a digital subscription to the Calgary Herald (for the past three years) and I do not even open the emails anymore. I do not have the time.

I have recently started using Google Reader to scan the blogs I am interested in and I have added several news feeds. I use the "Mark as Read" feature too often. I just do not have the time to read them all.

I do scan the headlines (sometimes) and I listen to news radio on my way to work. The radio, the old technology, is my largest source of news. Newspapers are dying.

This video is a great (20 min.) look at the closure of a paper - a complete closure, no digital edition will remain. I learned about this from Mitch Joel over at Six Pixels of Separation. You can read his blog post here.


Final Edition from Matthew Roberts on Vimeo.