Trees Are Smiling

Despite the havoc that the Asian Longhorned Beetle is causing, and the fact that the kill list is now up to 2500 trees within the Worcester quarantine zone, a more significant change was announced by a 100 year old national daily newspaper yesterday. The Christian Science Monitor is turning off their daily press run and going exclusively online for their daily news reporting. Beginning next April, CSM's print edition will change from daily to weekly, while focusing on daily breaking news via their online edition.

I think this model makes a lot of sense for a national daily. It even makes sense for WoMag, where they came up with this idea first, but in reverse order. They've always been a weekly print paper, but last year they started their daily online edition, Daily Worcesteria, and it's been nothing but rising statistics ever since.

Now if Worcester's local daily would just completely divorce itself from the concept of the deadline...