The decline continues

I see the Indo have this clip on their website, yet its 6 years old. Way to go. Do they employ someone to trawl the internet for stories or clips?

https://www.independent.ie/videos/why-do-you-have-euro-in-ireland-american-presenter-shocked-when-learning-ireland-doesnt-use-english-pounds-40906556.html

Interesting article throwing light on the issue discussed upthread of whether it is worthwhile for British newspapers without Irish editions to distribute in the Irish market

The i is cutting its price to €1 in a bid to attract 'price sensitive' customers. Commentator points out that the Daily Mail can justify circulating the title in Ireland by piggybacking on its existing distribution network...

Had missed that they already announced this

So presumably their trumpeted 'digital strategy' is now in tatters and their entire 'strategy' for the Irish market involves charging a big wodge for the (presumably now skimpier) Sunday edition...

I'm not sure. If you're someone who wants a big wodge of content for 'leisure reading' of a weekend, are you likely to prefer that in print or digital form? Plus if you're otherwise occupied on a particular Sunday you can skip that print version.

I wonder is this mass exodus of staff going to kick in straight away. If so we're going to be getting a pretty shoddy product in return for our 4 quid for the next while until they recruit replacements and get their act back together.

Little sign of the upheaval at ST in today's edition: usual amount of Irish content, departing Stephen O'Brien and Denis Walsh all over it. Looks like they might be able to manage the 'transition'...

Never was there a more apt thread name.

News Corp moved to the ex-INM City West site - except for The Times which was already in Portadown

The Guardian/Observer are at the Irish Times

The Mirror left the Celtic Media plant in Navan a few years ago and moved to the Irish Times. The Navan plant is now also closing.

The Express and the Star are currently in Newry

Seems that Mediahuis is looking at a Digital first strategy with those recent comments on RTE about ceasing print in about seven years. If Mediahuis is talking about this now, how bad can things be for other newspaper publishers?

Regards...jmcc

Seemingly a load of 'newsagents' round Dublin city centre have stopped selling newspapers and magazines

Seemingly the move relates to issues with delivery charges that it may be possible to address but still a pretty ominous development for the industry...

"It means an “overwhelming majority” of news retailers are being charged in excess of €6,500 per year just to receive papers and magazines".

Wow! With newspaper sales down about 80% from peak - how many retailers can justify paying €6,500 for the sake of a few sales - and using up shelf space?

Aldi and Lidl stopped selling newspapers a while ago. Some Mace stores have stopped too. Who's next?

I've seen newspapers on sale in the local Lidl so it may not be all Lidl stores. Those Indo figures above are quite shocking. If its figures are down that much, how far have the IT's sales fallen?

Regards...jmcc

Lidl tends to be clever with its marketing. There is also an Aldi and another large store all within two hundred metres of each other. Aldi stopped selling newspapers some time ago.

Not sure about the IT's digital subs compensating. It never publishes specifics on the subs such as discounts, breakdowns by period or non-renewal rates. The Sindo/Indo seem to be in the same position on digital subs but Mediahuis seems to have a clearer idea of what it wants to achieve.

The IT has always had problems getting to grips with digital publishing and paywalls. The front page of its website is a mess and it looks like a viewspaper rather than a newspaper. That Johnson quotation about orginality always comes to mind. The Indo always seems to be more focused on news but uses screenspace more effectively.

Regards...jmcc

Is there a list of the shops that don't sell newspapers in Dublin City anymore published online?

Would places like Easons and all of the supermarkets in Dublin City Centre still sell newspapers and magazines on their shelves to their customers?

Going from the figures that is being reported in the article; I would have assumed Centra, which is part of Musgraves who also own Supervalu, would also still continue to sell newspapers to customers in Dublin City Centre. The newsagents who are not selling the newspapers there anymore are the smaller independent one off shops that are not owned by a corporate retail business.

I wouldn't be surprised in seeing this trend of independent newsagents who no longer sell the national newspapers being mirrored right across the country. If we continue to see better broadband connections like increased use of Fibre and 5G connections going live within more locations in rural Ireland over the next few years; I would say that the physical newspaper in that scenario would not be able to survive that battle of being a once dominant form of media anymore. The physical newspaper would just become completely irrelevant in that part of the country.

You would just see what is being mirrored in Dublin CC with physical newspapers being sold in supermarkets and in bookshops like Easons in Rural Ireland from now on.

Physical book sales have actually held up pretty well. EReaders are an odd experience for lots of people, even those totally happy to do read short form (news) on phones instead

The newspapers still jacked up prices despite the abolition of the 9% vat