{"id":67460,"date":"2024-06-19T03:24:50","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T10:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myeverettnews.com\/?p=67460"},"modified":"2024-06-19T04:16:24","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T11:16:24","slug":"everett-herald-cutting-staff-in-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myeverettnews.com\/2024\/06\/19\/everett-herald-cutting-staff-in-half\/","title":{"rendered":"Everett Herald Cutting Staff in Half"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The writing was on the wall when the Everett Herald owner, Canadian-owned Black Press Media, filed for bankruptcy in January. We only found out through mysterious posts on all Sound Publishing websites.<\/p>\n

Mississippi-based Carpenter Media Group, in coordination with Canso Investment Counsel & Deans Knight Capital Management, assumed control of the Everett Herald and Sound Publishing.<\/p>\n

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Odd notice that showed up on all Sound Publishing sites on 1\/15\/24.<\/p><\/div>\n

Earlier this month, Carpenter also acquired two dozen Oregon publications<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Carpenter informed the union that it will lay off 62 people, which amounts to over half the unionized newsroom employees at The Everett Herald<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The Everett Herald had already been shrinking before this layoff. Despite population growth, the daily circulation is one-third what it used to be.<\/p>\n

Staff retention issues and low pay led to the editorial staff creating a union in 2022. Later that year, The Everett Herald announced it would start using the U.S. Postal Service for delivery. The paper also ceased publishing Sunday & Monday editions. Readers often complain about reading old news by the time it gets to them.<\/p>\n

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US Daily Newspaper Circulation (source: PEW Research)<\/p><\/div>\n

The Everett Herald isn’t alone in the struggle. The entire newspaper industry has been struggling.<\/p>\n

Between 2004 and 2023, 2,627 weekly publications closed or merged with other papers. In 2023, nearly 20,000 jobs<\/a> were cut.<\/p>\n

Online, Facebook has been deprioritizing news since 2020. Other social media channels has increased news coverage, but Google has long been the biggest player in driving traffic to news sites.<\/p>\n

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RISJ’S Digital News findings<\/p><\/div>\n

Google has long been prioritizing national news sites over local, but when California had a proposal to force Google to pay publishers for news content, Google removed some California news sites<\/a> to gauge “the impact of legislation on our product experience.”<\/p>\n

Now with AI repurposing web content without compensating the original authors, the entire news industry is in panic mode.<\/p>\n

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The writing was on the wall when the Everett Herald owner, Canadian-owned Black Press Media, filed for bankruptcy in January. We only found out through mysterious posts on all Sound Publishing websites. Mississippi-based Carpenter Media Group, in coordination with Canso Investment Counsel & Deans Knight Capital Management, assumed control of the Everett Herald and Sound […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52762200,55473771],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myeverettnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myeverettnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myeverettnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myeverettnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myeverettnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67460"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/myeverettnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67486,"href":"https:\/\/myeverettnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67460\/revisions\/67486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myeverettnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myeverettnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myeverettnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}