© Peter S. Cohan 2020
P. S. CohanGoliath Strikes Backhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6519-2_4

4. Newspapers

Peter S. Cohan1  
(1)
Management Division, Babson College, Wellesley, MA, USA
 

With the rise of social media and digital advertising, the newspaper industry was in decline in 2019, and Covid-19 accelerated the decline. Sadly, for newspapers that had not built a substantial online subscription base, severe cost cutting was not expected to offset the plunge in advertising revenue from small- and medium-sized enterprises whose revenues were reduced by social distancing. Without a significant infusion of additional capital, most traditional newspapers would not be able to accelerate their online subscriptions enough to become sustainable. Simply ...

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