The Cost Newsrooms Pay When They Try To Serve Two Audiences

The audience paying for journalism is aging out. The audience replacing them is reading formats that can't fund a newsroom. Outlets trying to serve both are degrading both.

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When The Washington Post killed its flagship daily podcast and more than a third of its newsroom this February, it confirmed what publishers across t…