Editor & Publisher quotes Poynter’s Rick Edmonds:
“Rick Edmonds, the former St. Petersburg Times managing editor and now a media business researcher and writer at the Poynter Institute, worries that newspapers ‘are flirting with the tipping point of seeming expendable to discerning readers’ because of the cuts. He notes that a reader complaint arising more frequently on the Web sites of newspapers is that ‘there’s nothing there’ in the print product.
” ‘It’s just my overall sense that some of the papers are dangerously small,’ says Edmonds. ‘Maybe of necessity, since you have to live within your means. But I would hope there would be some reinvestment in the product, or at a minimum redoubled efforts to be sure what’s in there is good and reflects the added-value that good reporters can bring to the conversation.’ “
