{"id":2653,"date":"2008-10-28T14:23:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T14:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2008\/10\/bring-your-laptop-to-the-reading-room.html"},"modified":"2008-10-28T14:23:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-28T14:23:00","slug":"bring-your-laptop-to-the-reading-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2008\/10\/bring-your-laptop-to-the-reading-room.html","title":{"rendered":"Bring your laptop to the Reading Room"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a pretty remarkable piece of news<\/a> — poignant and, perhaps, prophetic. For the first time, a major American newspaper is abandoning paper and ink: <\/p>\n

After a century of continuous publication, The Christian Science Monitor will abandon its weekday print edition and appear online only, its publisher announced Tuesday. The cost-cutting measure makes The Monitor the first national newspaper to essentially give up on print.<\/p>\n

The paper is currently published Monday through Friday, and will move to online only in April, although it will also introduce a Sunday magazine. John Yemma, The Monitor\u2019s editor, said that moving to the Web only will mean it can keep its eight foreign bureaus open while still lowering costs.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have the luxury \u2014 the opportunity \u2014 of making a leap that most newspapers will have to make in the next five years,\u201d Mr. Yemma said.<\/p>\n

The Monitor is an anachronism in journalism, a nonprofit financed by a church and delivered through the mail. But with seven Pulitzer Prizes and a reputation for thoughtful writing and strong international coverage, it long maintained an outsize influence in the publishing world, which declined as its circulation has slipped to 52,000, from a high of more than 220,000 in 1970.<\/p>\n

In an industry that has been conducting layoffs, closing bureaus and shrinking the size of the product, The Monitor\u2019s experiment will be tracked very closely.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody\u2019s talking about new models,\u201d Mr. Yemma said. \u201cThis is a new model.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You can find more at the link. And you can get a glimpse of the future, and read the Monitor’s account of what it’s doing, right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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