Since Gannett took over our local paper here it's gone right down the toilet. It's become more of USA Today. Sports section has gone down the tubes. We have a AA baseball team here that's a farm system for the AZ. Diamondbacks.....To get their scores day to day I have to go on the team website because the paper here in the same town as the AA team doesn't even put scores in the paper anymore. After 30 plus years I'm about to cancel.
The way they've gutted their TN papers is sad. I read the big three every day, and they've not only become carbon copies of one another but their news coverage has become stale and generic. No wonder; the first thing Gannett did when they purchased KNS was lay off 25% of the editorial staff. Local news went out the window in favor of this statewide "USA Today Network" nonsense. And if Mike Strange is right, real sports coverage is about to become a thing of the past as well.
I get that the metro and national dailies are struggling to find their identity in the new digital world. I don't know the best way forward for those papers. If I did, I'd give up my role, purchase one of them, and turn it around. But I'm convinced that the path Gannett has chosen is not the best way forward.