WPKN: Politics, Policy, and Planet Podcast
Oct 9, 2026 · 20 min · 9 segments
Interview with Tom Smith, New Haven Advocate co-editor, conducted by Scott Harris. Tom Smith, who served as an associate writer and columnist with the Advocate from 1987, talks about the recent…
Tom SmithGuestScott HarrisHostIn fact, we have, you know, I, I've read anywhere from like 1,400 to 2,500 weekly newspapers that have gone out of business.
And a lot of that's owes to digital advertising moving away from print advertising, right? So that's a, that's a huge, uh, obstacle for any new sort of publication to, to confront.
No, I, I just wanted you to talk about the, the digital versus print because certainly it's, it's a less expensive project [laughs] to go on a c-
... on a website than it is to what you, what you guys did when you printed, what, some 10,000 copies of the paper-
And it's, uh, it's just as well that we did because they're go- they've been going out pretty quickly.
In fact, we have, you know, I, I've read anywhere from like 1,400 to 2,500 weekly newspapers that have gone out of business.
And a lot of that's owes to digital advertising moving away from print advertising, right? So that's a, that's a huge, uh, obstacle for any new sort of publication to, to confront.
No, I, I just wanted you to talk about the, the digital versus print because certainly it's, it's a less expensive project [laughs] to go on a c-
... on a website than it is to what you, what you guys did when you printed, what, some 10,000 copies of the paper-
And it's, uh, it's just as well that we did because they're go- they've been going out pretty quickly.
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