Gannett Blog, a nonprofit site being run by an ex-Gannett editor, has shut down after nearly seven years.
The site was launched by Jim Hopkins, a former reporter and editor at USA Today, and was probably the foremost tracker of the tumult and the repositioning that was under way inside the nation’s largest newspaper chain.
During the site’s lifespan, Gannett cut its payroll by 40 percent, to 30,000.
At the end of December, Gannett completed its acquisition of the Belo television chain, which gave it access to one third of all TV homes in the country and changed its corporate media mix dramatically.
“As I wrote in my final post, Gannett has become a very different company from the one I started blogging about in September 2007. It’s now focused on TV broadcasting, with newspaper publishing quickly becoming more of a side business,” he e-mailed to Media Ink. “That made this a logical time to move on to something new.”