So…what do you think about the recent changes with the Telegram Tribune??

By the amount of times that the Trib has addressed Q&A in the paper about it, I’d guess that most people are not happy with the changes. In today’s paper they once again defended complaints from readers about the changes, saying that they haven’t reduced local or business content.

I think we’re seeing the beginning of the end for the Tribune as we used to know it. The recent changes are all about cost cutting . My prediction has been that the local newspaper will focus more on local news, which isn’t the direction that the Trib is headed. They seem to be trying to be all sorts of things, even adding more entertainment gossip-type articles. What’s interesting is that with all the reductions of news and relayout of the paper, the sports page remains the same, with multiple pages of coverage and statistics of non-California teams. I’m interested to see if the local sports coverage takes a lot of this space once the school year gets going or if the wire stories (the stories someone other than the Trib writes) continue to dominate this section.

It should be interesting to see where the Trib goes next. Since it’s owned by a large corporation, I don’t know if they have much say on what to try to attact Central Coast readers. With Cal Poly in our backyard with all the journalism majors, it sure seems like there are plenty of resources to cover local news if they wanted to.