{"id":11851,"date":"2023-10-14T10:37:55","date_gmt":"2023-10-14T08:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/14\/telegraph-auction-poses-litmus-test-for-value-of-newspapers-in-digital-age\/"},"modified":"2023-10-14T10:37:55","modified_gmt":"2023-10-14T08:37:55","slug":"telegraph-auction-poses-litmus-test-for-value-of-newspapers-in-digital-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/14\/telegraph-auction-poses-litmus-test-for-value-of-newspapers-in-digital-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Telegraph auction poses litmus test for value of newspapers in digital age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While falling sales suggest the demise of print, the industry has proved adaptable and remains attractive to media barons<\/p>\n<p>The imminent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2023\/jun\/07\/daily-telegraph-and-sunday-telegraph-newspapers-to-be-put-up-for-sale\">auction of the Telegraph<\/a> is being viewed as a litmus test of the value of influential national newspaper titles in the era of increasingly digitally led profitability. Media barons and conglomerates, who have hung on to old-world assets for decades in the belief it was right to bet on a sector largely unfancied by tech-obsessed investors, are watching it keenly.<\/p>\n<p>Since the onset of the digital era at the start of the century, newspapers have, with a few notable exceptions, been a precarious investment at best.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2023\/oct\/14\/telegraph-auction-poses-litmus-test-for-value-of-newspapers-in-digital-age\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c348ff1ab1fd9df408ea4c8d375c694a670a27ee\/0_146_4368_2621\/master\/4368.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=08181a1528603c39a0750449e8557c9a\" title=\"Telegraph auction poses litmus test for value of newspapers in digital age\" \/>While falling sales suggest the demise of print, the industry has proved adaptable and remains attractive to media barons<br \/>\nThe imminent auction of the Telegraph is being viewed as a litmus test of the value of influential national newspaper titles in the era of increasingly digitally led profitability. Media barons and conglomerates, who have hung on to old-world assets for decades in the belief it was right to bet on a sector largely unfancied by tech-obsessed investors, are watching it keenly.<br \/>\nSince the onset of the digital era at the start of the century, newspapers have, with a few notable exceptions, been a precarious investment at best. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While falling sales suggest the demise of print, the industry has proved adaptable and remains attractive to media barons The imminent auction of the Telegraph is being viewed as a litmus test of the value of influential national newspaper titles in the era of increasingly digitally led profitability. Media barons and conglomerates, who have hung &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/14\/telegraph-auction-poses-litmus-test-for-value-of-newspapers-in-digital-age\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Telegraph auction poses litmus test for value of newspapers in digital age<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11851"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}