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Christian Science Monitor Cuts Print Edition, Fully Embraces Web

by Terrence O'Brien on October 29, 2008 at 04:49 PM

Christian Science Monitor Shifts Online
Over the past few years, online and traditional outlets have ran hyperbolic editorials heralding the death of print. And while we've seen newspaper circulation shrink and seemingly timeless magazines such as Rolling Stone take severe cost cutting measures, nothing has really signaled that the printed word was really on its last leg. That is until this morning, when the Christian Science Monitor announced that in April of 2009, it would be shifting its weekday publication to a purely online format.

The Monitor, which will celebrate its 100th anniversary on November 25, has won numerous Pulitzer prizes for its excellent reporting. In April of 2009, the weekday editions will move online, where reporters will be expected not only to file their articles but update them throughout the day as stories evolve. On weekends, The Monitor will print a weekend magazine with longer, in-depth pieces that might not be best suited for a Web-centric format.

The paper has said that the new move will allow it to avoid making drastic cuts to its work force and reporting while still delivering the same high quality journalism its readers have come to expect.

The shift to online publishing is the first sign that print -- at least newsprint -- might really be on the way out. Though not as popular as papers like the New York Times and the Washington Post, The Monitor is almost as highly regarded and is one of the few national news papers left in the U.S. that still has dedicated foreign bureaus.

It's been a good run. RIP Print Media, 1439-2009. [From: The New York Times and The Christian Science Monitor]

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