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Friday, June 6, 2014

The future of the newspaper? OilCity | News in Real-time for Wyoming Communities

To my surprise, somebody has just launched a "real time" newspaper for Casper:

OilCity | News in Real-time for Wyoming Communities

Casper has two papers as it is, a daily and a weekly. I have a hard time seeing how a free instant paper can succeed, but then newspapers in big cities already have trouble with instant electronic news. Sign of the times I suppose. It's interesting to note that Casper, when it was a much smaller town, had two daily newspapers, a morning and an evening paper. That being, of course, in an era when radio was the only competition, and no news was instant.

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