Last edition of Christian Science Monitor

[Robbien]

Source: MSN News

The Christian Science Monitor prints its final edition on Friday, bringing a 100-year run as a daily newspaper to an end but beginning a new era as an online publication.

. . .

He said the Monitor had cut its editorial staff from 97 employees at the end of last year to around 80 but was maintaining eight foreign bureaus, a network of stringers and six domestic US bureaus outside of Boston and Washington.

"All that stays intact and our budget stays virtually the same there."

Yemma said the downsizing was hard "but now that we've completed that and we're on the verge of making our big push I think there's a lot of excitement about us being pioneers."

He said the Monitor, which celebrated its 100th anniversary last November, did not currently plan to charge visitors to its website like some other newspapers, notably the Wall Street Journal, are doing.

Read more: http://news.id.msn.com/sci-tech/article.aspx?cp-documentid=2940449

[Mojorabbit]

1. I am glad they will be online

It has been a wonderful source of news.

[emilyg]

3. Yes. Unbiased - true news.

[Robbien]

5. Even though they are supported by a religious organization

the Monitor has had some good foreign coverage reporters.

So yes it is good they found a way to keep the stories coming.

[JI7]

2. anyone know if this is happening to foreign newspapers and magazines ?

the news media just has to change their ways and come up with a way to profit by bringing news to people online.

[arcos]

4. It is, everywhere...

Maybe not as dramatic as in the US, but they are downsizing everywhere, moving to online-only everywhere, laying people off everywhere.

[NGC_6822]

9. Foreign papers on-line

I stopped reading all newspapers in print about a year ago. Now, I get everything on-line. Here is a list of my daily scans on the Internet (all in English):

International Herald Tribune
BBC
CNN
Fox News
Euro News
Reuters
Bloomberg
World News
Der Spiegel
Japan Times
Jerusalem Post
Aljazeera
Hindustan Times
Democratic Underground
Free Republic

[XemaSab]

6. No!

:o

[Zhade]

7. Such an oxymoronic name for a publication.

NT!

[Sherman A1]

8. I don't read it everyday, but it is a great paper

I was getting their daily email update, until some filtering problems crept into the mix, so now I have to click on it instead of getting it to my inbox.

Nevertheless a great paper and organization.

[No Elephants]

10. Don't know about lately, but it used to be the most respected paper. This is very scary.

[pam4water]

11. Sad to say I haven't keep up withthem since the 1980s

[antimatter98]

12. Remember also they had a full blown shortwave radio service that was shut down...

years ago. I think they were trying to become another BBC World Service
and they were on public radio stations as well.

ref:
http://town.hall.org/Archives/radio/IMS/Monitor/feeds.html

[legin]

13. They were good about about the Russian Revolution

W.H.Chamberlin - The Russian Revolution, 2 vols, is one of the recommended books (it's OK)
- was Russian corespondent for the Christian Science Monitor.

[trof]

14. One of the papers my journalism professors recommended.

I read it online every morning.

[roseBudd]

15. One thing DUers can do as they read news online is reward the organization....

that paid the reporter to write the story, NOT the aggregator.

On DU that means clicking through to the articles after perusing the summaries on LBN.

I admire DU for enforcing rules in LBN, actual headlines, 4 paragraphs, and a link to the story.

I have the biggest problem with Common Dreams, while they do cite the originator with a link, it more often than not is just to the front page of that paper, not the article, and they publish the whole story, robbing the newsroom that created it of their page views, which equals advertising revenue.

The other unrealized benefit of online page views is liberals become a roving band of Nielsen families.

[troubleinwinter]

16. There is to be a weekly expanded print version.

My dad has subscribed for many decades, and recieved the preview of the weekly version. He says it is many additional pages, well laid out and quality paper.

[damntexdem]

17. Will now be The Christian Silence Monitor?