July 12, 2019
By Amelia Lucas
In addition to removing newspaper stands that carry copies of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and USA Today, the company plans to remove shelving fixtures that display whole bean coffee and grab-and-go snacks.
The New York Post first reported the coffee chain’s plans to stop selling newspapers at its roughly 8,600 company-owned stores in the U.S.
“We are always looking at what we offer our customers in our stores and making adjustments to our portfolio based on changing customer behavior,” Starbucks spokeswoman Sanja Gould said in a statement.
As the media landscape changes, more customers are reading their news online. The Pew Research Center estimates that weekday circulation of print newspapers fell 12% last year, while weekday digital circulation jumped 6%. Both the Times and the Journal reported that their own digital readership increased by more than 20% in 2018....
I still purchase newspapers from these boxes, especially when I am traveling. I don't know how much newsprint Starbucks sold, but, there is always the sidewalk outside of Starbucks.
February 17, 2017
By Dan Kennedy
Local news is the lifeblood of communities. (click here) But with traditional models of paying for local coverage no longer working, residents of too many cities, towns, and neighborhoods find themselves with little of the information they need to be informed, involved citizens.
Last week, the Local News Lab, launched by the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation with funding from the Knight Foundation, issued a progress report on its first 18 months of working with community journalism projects in New Jersey. (Nieman Lab’s Joseph Lichterman laid out some of the findings here, focusing on the lessons for philanthropists; you can download a PDF of the full report here. And, full disclosure, Knight is also a funder of Nieman Lab.)
The report is chock full of interesting ideas about collaboration, community engagement, and the role of philanthropy. Some of those ideas are so old that they’re new again. To wit: A $5,000 experimentation grant that was used in part to purchase newspaper boxes, thus saving New Brunswick Today some $300 a month....
