![]() The funds come from the association’s annual scholarship auction. The Maine Press Association awards scholarships every year to a junior or senior with financial need who plans to pursue a career in journalism. Joseph’s College of Maine and 2022 intern at The Windham Eagle. Recipients of 2023 scholarships are Grace Bradley, of Orono, a senior at the University of Maine and editor-in-chief of the university’s chapter of Her Campus Hope Carroll, of Portland, a junior at the University of Maine and opinion contributor to The Maine Campus and Andrew Wing, of Raymond, a senior at St. The Maine Press Association awarded $3,000 in scholarships to three Maine journalism students in January. On A1 each day a note appears that directs print subscribers to how to activate their digital subscription.įor the podcast in which Light and the U-T’s analytics senior manager, Anthony Basilio, discuss the delivery decision, go to and scroll down to the San Diego News Fix podcast.From left: Grace Bradley, Hope Carroll, and Andrew Wing are the 2023 recipients of the Maine Press Association’s journalism scholarship. The U-T has been encouraging subscribers to familiarize themselves with the digital products. “I really have not been able to see from a business perspective a day when we would not have the Sunday paper,” Light said in the podcast. Daily print will stop at some point, but Light says a Sunday print product should remain. Still, the U-T plans to continue daily print for as long as the numbers pencil out to continue the paper’s profitability. Times plant and trucked down to San Diego every night. Since then, the U-T has been printed at the L.A. in 2015 and kept the land in Mission Valley that was home to the U-T’s three-story press. A press has not existed in San Diego since Manchester Financial Group sold the U-T to Tribune Publishing Co. It’s also expensive to produce a daily print product - newsprint, the cost to run a massive press, labor to operate the press and deliver the paper to a home, and the extreme expense of fuel, not to mention the carbon footprint of driving 13,000 miles a day, as U-T delivery contractors do. Every year, print subscriptions decline, and digital subscriptions increase. ![]() ![]() Print readers are older younger readers are not choosing to subscribe to print. Print subscribers have unlimited access to the website and the e-edition.Īs much as many readers, and I, like print, at some point in the future readership and economics will bring an end to the printed seven-day-a-week newspaper. I also like the ease of accessing past editions. Times Calendar section runs daily and two pages of news service obituaries are published Saturdays. ![]() The e-edition also features some extras: U-T sports adds pages Thursdays and Saturdays the L.A. Subscribers can access the e-edition by going to the top of the website and clicking on “eNewspaper.” Readers move from page to page just as they would with print. In fact, it originates from the same electronic files that are used to create the plates for the print editions. The e-edition is an exact replica of the printed newspaper. Nonsubscribers have limited access to the site. It’s also a way to access podcasts, videos and photo galleries. I think its greatest strength is for breaking news. Readers scroll up and down for news stories. The U-T has two main digital platforms: the website and the e-edition. According to a study released Wednesday by Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, 40 of the largest 100 newspapers in the country publish only digital versions at least once a week. So what we want to do this year is to get our print readers acclimated to using our digital products.” But I think that using the next several years to prepare our customers and our company for that important date, whenever it comes, is an important priority. So that day is actually not very close for us. “Now, unlike some others in the industry, we have the advantage of profitability and of time. “As we look at our digital transformation going forward, we can see that there will be a day when we do not have print delivery seven days,” Light said June 19 in a “Backstory” segment of the U-T’s San Diego News Fix podcast. ![]() However, the future is digital, and that’s the point of the digital-only version for Monday and for Labor Day. The U-T plans seven-day print delivery for years to come, Light told subscribers. ![]()
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