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The Capital Times, the 90-year-old daily afternoon newspaper of Madison, Wisconsin, is eliminating its print edition and becoming an online-only publication. While the Times was once a legendary voice of enlightened progressivism, battling Wisconsin Senator Joe McCarthy and serving as a voice to Madison's notoriously liberal citizenry, the new electronic edition of the paper will mostly be based around a local web portal and entertainment listings, as that's where the ad money is. More than 20 newsroom staffers lost their jobs, with each now-former journalist receiving a profile written, apparently, by one of their laid-off colleagues, in some sort of sick newspaper-shuttering Bataan Death March. [NYT, Shilv.org]
Dead Bury Dead in Madison Newspaper Massacre
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11:49 AM on Mon Apr 28 2008
By Pareene
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who's next?
-- times herald record, middletown ny
-- westchester gannett paper
-- brooklyn eagle
-- new hampshire paper
-- hamptons papers
we need a poll
The Cap Times was dead in the water years ago when the publisher decided to make it the afternoon paper (the morning paper is "conservative") because it had a higher subscription rate in that slot. Needless to say, times-they-be-a-changin' and the paper lost readership. A similar thing happened to the Milwaukee paper (Journal/Sentinel) 10 years ago. There were a lot of "early retirements" and a shrinking source for news...
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