What Happens When Your Local Paper Goes Online-Only? It Loses Most of Its Staff [MediaMemo]

Conventional wisdom is that if today’s newspapers want to survive, they’re going to have to ditch their printing presses, and most of their staff, and learn to do more with less in an online-only world.

OK. But exactly how much less?

I’ve been asking Mark Josephson that question for months, and now he has an answer: Josephson, the CEO of local news platform Outside.in, figures the local, online-only newspaper of tomorrow for a decent-sized city has a staff of 20 people. That’s 20 people, period: Perhaps 6 of those people are “news gatherers.” Here’s his math.

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