Who Believes Print Newspapers have a future? The 'Occupy Wall Street Journal' does

[brooklynite]

Source: Capital NY

Amid all the complaints that there's an Occupy Wall Street media blackout, some protest-sympathizers have taken matters into their own hands.

Tomorrow, the rolling protest in the Financial District will have the first edition of its own broadsheet newspaper (and it's not, as previously reported, made by media pranksters The Yes Men, who make headlines punking major news outlets like the BBC).

The debut issue of The Occupy Wall Street Journal will hit the streets of New York on Saturday afternoon, one of its editors, Arun Gupta, told Capital. The maiden edition will be a four-page, 17-by 22-inch broadsheet with a print run of 75,000; 10,000 copies will be passed out at a rally at Liberty Plaza Saturday afternoon, and the rest will be distributed by hand at transit hubs and other well-trafficked public places around the five boroughs.

"We want to get it out to everyone," said Gupta, who was running on two hours of sleep when Capital got him on the phone Friday morning. "But I have a good sense of how a lot of the print media operates in New York, and Manhattan is overdosed on free print media, whereas in the outerboroughs, they're starved.

Read more: http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/culture/2011/09/3561383/who-believes-print-newspapers-have-future-occupy-wall-street-journal

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Interesting that they can agree on content for a newspaper, considering it took two weeks to come to consensus on a policy statement. Also interesting that they have the financial resources for a 75,000 copy print run.

[Enthusiast]

1. Kicked and recommended! nt

[valerief]

2. Great! Now if only our voting ballots were paper, too! nt

[fascisthunter]

3. I Believe it will Always have a place

it may be scaled back as we have already seen, but people still like to read from a paper rather than an electronic/digital device.

[applegrove]

4. Don't think so. There is lots of pulp & paper industry here in Ontario/Quebec. They are all hurting.

[eilen]

5. Cool! I used to subscribe to the Indypendant

as I live 7 hours upstate.

[zeemike]

6. I think it is a brilliant move...makes it more underground like.

And it is probably the cheapest bang for the buck.

[Muskypundit]

7. Thats straight from the U.S army Psychological Operations manual

I LOVE it :)