all the news that's fit to print

[hitchhiker]

In a digital age of 24-hour rolling news, newspapers worldwide are investing resources in their online editions. But a US publisher has gone back in time by launching a print-only broadsheet in the style of a 19th-century newspaper.

Called County Highway, it is responding to a demand from readers for in-depth stories and writing that needs time to savour. It will not have an internet edition.

Focusing primarily on the US and publishing every two months, it has a format partly inspired by Charles Dickens and other 19th-century authors whose stories were serialised in journals. It will include serialised books from its own new publishing house – an independent company that is taking on the conglomerates that dominate the industry.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/oct/01/americas-new-print-only-newspaper-county-highway-reinvents-the-art-of-reading-slowly

there's the inevitable moralistic spin to it, and i wonder how much of the early interest is simply due to novelty, but it's also interesting to see that a lot of people are keen on having something like this.

Comments

[teddywolf]

Well, consider that some longer-form magazines currently part of the conglomerates were initially independent companies taking on the conglomerates.

Time and the audience will tell.

[hitchhiker]

yeah, good point. i doubt this particular publication will go that way though, appeals to too niche an audience!

[amaebi]

May many competitors from disparate points of view rise up and the new sector thrive.