Update June 2024

 After a long gap this seems a good place to put this.

I think the newspapers in UK may be coming to an end or significant change. Evening Standard is stopping as a nightly print event, now a website and weekly magazine.

Simon Jenkins in Guardian wrote about the small online blogs and websites but claimed the recent local election in London showed there was "no substitte for stable institutional critique of local democracy" . I am not sure the Standard was doing this. Couple of tiimes I visited London I read a few paged of positive stuff about the conservative candidate. Not sure it was accurate or appealing to most readers.

I may be off topic for a blog about print but it is a bit relevant. A lot of Fleet Street has always supported the Conservative Party. Is this selling any extra copies at this time? Possibly more newspapers will fllow the Standard.

Guardian editorial claimed it should be possible to reimagine the Standard for a digital age. It may be too late. Long ago there was Guardian Unlimited Talk. A bulletin board for readers. Cancelled one Friday lunchtime without notice.  

I may come back to this blog and make some links

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Jan 23 2024 Guardian report on Reach and local press. I think the Express and Echo may not last either. Now quite expensive.