Has 131-year history of the Montreal French newspaper (La Presse) in December 31, 2015, said goodbye to the print edition.
From January 1, 2016, the newspaper will retain only Saturdays print edition of the newspaper, the remaining six days only publish network Edition. At present throughout the North American continent, decisive a step only a handful of newspapers. Newspapers to abandon the old carrier can be reborn, anyone can guess. The transformation of the news, even attracted the attention of European media across an ocean.
For editors and reporters of the news, which means the end of an era, there is nostalgia for the past, also has disturbing for the future. But it says from keleweiye, the President of the newspaper, the newspaper La Presse online App since its introduction in 2013, its advertising revenue had more than the Print Edition, so give up the print edition at least in economic is ok.
Canadas other newspapers is closely watching the transformation of the news, but so far no one has announced to follow-up. Some media experts believe that, as a French-language newspaper, the news of risk is relatively small.
But some readers will inevitably be left behind. Montreal public Hobbes was one of them, he said he wouldnt give up when drink a cup of coffee in the morning and read newspaper habit. The news is out of print, he would replace it with a new newspaper on his coffee.
