■ 12 September 2011 | 11:39 AM
Changes coming to your Pilot
A note to readers from the editor:
As Virginian-Pilot publisher Maurice Jones explained last week, we face unprecedented headwinds in the economy and in the newspaper industry.
To stay competitive, we must reduce costs so that we can remain profitable, which allows us to bring you news - in print and online - every day.
People and paper are our biggest expenses, so when it's time to cut, that's where we go. By the end of the year, our staff will be a little smaller, and so will your Virginian-Pilot.
Here are the changes you will begin to see next week:
- On Mondays only, we will combine the front section with the Hampton Roads section, and we will combine Sports and Classified. The editorial section will be one page.
- The Sunday editorial pages will be three pages instead of four.
- The Sunday Health and Science section will be eliminated. News about health and science isn't going away but now will be displayed in our news sections. The Eyewitness page, a part of Health and Science, will alternate on Mondays with Context in the front section.
- The Drive and Classified sections will be combined on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.
- The weather page will run on the back of Sports every day.
- We will eliminate a total of about a dozen other pages per week to come from sections including The Daily Break and Gracious Living.
- We no longer will offer a North Carolina section on Sunday for readers on the Outer Banks and other parts of northeastern North Carolina. We will continue to cover those areas and display that news throughout the paper.
The economic realities are difficult and I won't try to spin these changes. But I promise we will continue to provide you with the best, most comprehensive and most credible news report possible every day, with news that impacts your life.
As always, thank you for reading The Virginian-Pilot.
Denis Finley, Editor
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Well it seems as though I
Well it seems as though I may have to cancel my subscription...
Bob Gibson, Executive
Bob Gibson, Executive Director of the University of Virginia’s Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership, recently said: “I think our journalism and our politics are changing at an ever-increasing rate.... Everyone is trying new business models because old print newspaper empires will die if they view themselves as old print newspaper empires. They are either in the news business or in the newspaper business, and if they are in the news business they will adapt a new business model and survive. If they are in the newspaper business, they’ll just go out of business.” (Gibson appeared on the Charlottesville, VA, interview program Politics Matters with host Jan Paynter discussing journalism http://bit.ly/pm-gibson)
Lets face it, the pilot dosnt print what readers will pay for
If the pilot would cover stories, instead of printing press releases as news, if the pilot would turn reporters loose to investigate city hall, if the pilot would print news that hasnt been provided by other media earlier, they might have a chance. Good, investigating reporters are expensive, but so are flak that merely regurgitate press releases. The flaks cost circulation while good reporters increase circulation.
this-exactly
Give your readers LOCAL news-not recycled news. Keeping people interested = keeping readership/advertising dollar.
Maybe it's time......
that we just canceled home delivery all together anyway. Rarely, do we see any news now in print that we are not already aware of. With internet ability for commentary, updated stories....newspaper in print is going the way of the vinyl record....and with tight finances it may not be the best expenditure of funds any longer.