Emerson Journalism Prof Has the Newspaper Delivery Blues

Four out of six recent days without a paid-for New York Times ain't good.

Jerry Lanson and his wife Kathy are not happy. The Lexington, Mass. couple look forward to debating the day’s news each morning over copies of The New York Times and Boston Globe. But in recent weeks, both papers have been variously MIA.

On The Huffington Post, Lanson relates his conversation with an NYT “account resolutions manager.” The Emerson College journalism professor also dovetails into some interesting thoughts on some of the more subtle collateral damage wrought by the digital age:

Today, the value of digital news is increasingly being measured by the most hits, just as Facebook posts are measured by the most likes.

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