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March 28, 2024

The Content-Producing Engines Are Sputtering

The geese that lay the golden eggs of digital content are going on a diet. The likelihood of cuts extending into the newsroom is something that Outsell has been commenting on publicly in recent weeks. Newsroom staff tightening coupled with declining print circulation is nothing new. Both have been part of the landscape for a decade as an industry squeezed by changing media habits and Web competitors has retrenched its print-side operations. But something bigger is happening now. Earlier this year, Wall Street began to signal its developing concern that newspaper companies just aren