There is one (1) ray of hope: Smaller newspapers, such as the CHRONICLE-TELEGRAM (of Elyria, Ohio) and the NORWALK (Ohio) REFLECTOR make their on-line customers buy subscriptions. The C-T adds digital access for a dollar for subscribers to its print edition while the REFELCTOR has a lower rate than for print, but still respectable. The C-T serves southern Lorain County as well as Medina County (which is an overflow of Greater Cleveland) while the REFLECTOR serves the city of Norwalk as well as rural Huron County. The C-T still is owned by the third or fourth generation of the same family, and I expect that it will be about the last newspaper left standing in northern Ohio. The (Cleveland) PLAIN DEALER, alas, is owned by a chain which bet (wrongly) that it could fold the print edition and make more profit off a free, on-live edition.
There is one (1) ray of hope: Smaller newspapers, such as the CHRONICLE-TELEGRAM (of Elyria, Ohio) and the NORWALK (Ohio) REFLECTOR make their on-line customers buy subscriptions. The C-T adds digital access for a dollar for subscribers to its print edition while the REFELCTOR has a lower rate than for print, but still respectable. The C-T serves southern Lorain County as well as Medina County (which is an overflow of Greater Cleveland) while the REFLECTOR serves the city of Norwalk as well as rural Huron County. The C-T still is owned by the third or fourth generation of the same family, and I expect that it will be about the last newspaper left standing in northern Ohio. The (Cleveland) PLAIN DEALER, alas, is owned by a chain which bet (wrongly) that it could fold the print edition and make more profit off a free, on-live edition.