ActiveAndFit saidGwgTrunks saidMy feeling about ALL print media is this: Move along to the internet already, or don't be surprised when people can't be bothered to buy your news print.
Welcome to the digital age, folks.
I was wondering about this too. I know southern voice had a web version, I wonder if they could try to enhance that and keep going. It seems to work for most of the sites I look at like huffington post..
The websites were all shut down too. Atlanta already has a new gay website doing some original reporting. It was created by Matt Hennie, a former editor of SoVo:
http://www.projectqatlanta.com/I'm all for publications having robust websites, but the truth is that the medium so far does not lend itself to in-depth investigative reporting or feature stories of substance.
But it's also true that the truncation of news and feature writing began well before any publications had established web presence. Americans' attention span began to shrink substantially with the advent of CNN and the 24-hour news cycle.
When I made my living writing feature stories for magazines, I frequently wrote 5,000 to 7,000 words or more. That's pretty unheard of outside a few magazines now.