Should have mentioned this in my first post. Beginning in April of next year, The Christian Science Monitor will no longer have a daily print edition. There will be a weekly print edition available, but all daily content will be posted on the Web site, csmonitor.com.
Here's a portion of the Oct. 28 news story from the csmonitor.com Web site:
"While the Monitor's print circulation, which is primarily delivered by US mail, has trended downward for nearly 40 years, "looking forward, the Monitor's Web readership clearly shows promise," said Judy Wolff, chairman of the Board of Trustees of The Christian Science Publishing Society. "We plan to take advantage of the Internet in order to deliver the Monitor's journalism more quickly, to improve the Monitor's timeliness and relevance, and to increase revenue and reduce costs. We can do this by changing the way the Monitor reaches its readers."
The Monitor, of course, is not a typical big-city daily. It is a national daily, a non-profit underwritten by a church. It has never had the sorts of kids-on-bicycles home delivery that most daily newspapers have had. It depends on mail subscriptions, which means it takes it even longer to get its news in the hands of readers.
In that respect, it's shift to on-line for its daily product is a result of different calculations than most dailies will make. Even so, it is probably a harbinger of things to come for much of the industry.
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