MEDIA ITE – 14/11/2019
Matthew Kassel
In the past few years, a number of media outlets have given up their print publications in favor of going exclusively online, including ESPN The Magazine, The New York Observer, Glamour and Seventeen.
Despite these changes, there has been scant meaningful research on what such publications are losing — aside from paper — when they go online-only. But a new study may provide an answer. Published in Journalism Practice, the study suggests that publications that have ended their print editions could be sacrificing a valuable measure of engagement with their readers: time.