So today, I am reading tons about how new larger format electronic reader are coming and how they could save the newspaper industry, etc, etc, etc…..
I am not going on about that so much for the tech at least. But here is my take on how a newspaper could become more valuable to me.
Quality reports about local news.
It is that simple. Now I know housing quality writers, editors and reports cost money. I am all for paying for a service that would bring me this, even in an electronic format. I use my news/RSS readers to pull national and world stories and heck I use it to pull in statewide stories from LSJ. But what I don’t have is any quality stories that are from my town, county or other near area news. So much seems to be just word of mouth now. Now I am all for word of mouth and heck, I do like to gossip from time to time. But I want something that is a tad more formal. I want, no need, to know what is going on in city consel meetings or county planning meetings. I like to know what is going on for crime and similar in my area. This is what is already gone in electronic news. This is what I would pay for from a local newspaper firm now. I would drop like 10 bucks a month for this service. It is worth it to me.
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