Green Options » The Capital Times http://greenoptions.com/tag/the-capital-times Posts tagged 'The Capital Times' Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:15:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en All the News That’s Fit to Download http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/04/30/all-the-news-thats-fit-to-download/ http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/04/30/all-the-news-thats-fit-to-download/#comments Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:15:56 +0000 Shirley Siluk Gregory http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/04/30/all-the-news-thats-fit-to-download/ The Capital Times’ new online edition. (Image courtesy of The Capital Times.)The always-progressive Capital Times of Madison, Wisconsin, has once again offered a worthy — and green — lesson to its print media counterparts across the U.S.

That’s because, as of this week, the daily newspaper is being distributed exclusively online. The Capital Times’ last daily print edition went out on Saturday, April 26.

A Monday article in The Washington Post notes the Madison newspaper, like almost every traditional print paper across the country, has seen a steep drop in circulation over past decades. The switch to an exclusively online edition (outside of a free weekly insert in The Wisconsin State Journal)  also comes with a deep cut in employees  — from about 60 to 40, but the paper promises to continue delivering local and breaking news seven days a week.

 

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