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London newspaper Lloyd's List - the world's fourth-oldest continuously published newspaper - is going out of print by the end of the year and will only be available online....
It's a perfect example of how print journalism is going out of fashion, being replaced by digital journalism...
279-year-old Lloyd's List newspaper goes digital
25 September 2013
BBC News
Lloyd's List is to go fully digital from December
A newspaper that began life 279 years ago as a notice pinned to a London coffee shop wall, will be available online only from the end of the year.
The last print publication of Lloyd's List, which carries news for the shipping industry, will be on 20 December.
A survey carried out earlier this year found that only 25 of its customers used the print edition alone.
Lloyd's List has been providing weekly shipping news in London since 1734
Editor Richard Meade said it was "just a natural part of our evolution".
He said the aim had changed little since 1734, when the notice pinned to a coffee shop wall offered customers shipping news and information.
"We haven't changed that much. But now [customers] can access us in any coffee shop in the world," he added.
Mr Meade said that while nostalgia weighed on the company's shoulders, customers paid a premium for information and did not want to wait for it to come by post.
Lloyd's List was founded by Edward Lloyd, who posted details of ship arrivals, departures and casualties on the wall of his coffee shop for the benefit of London's 18th Century maritime community.
An early image of Edward Lloyd's Coffee House in the City of London, where Lloyd's List was originally published in the 18th century
Lloyd's List is one of the world's oldest continuously running journals, having provided weekly shipping news in London as early as 1734. Now published daily, a recent issue was numbered 60,850 (2013). Known simply as 'The List', Lloyd's List was begun by Edward Lloyd, the proprietor of Lloyd's Coffee House in the City of London as a reliable but terse source of information for the merchants' agents and insurance underwriters who met regularly in his establishment in Lombard Street to negotiate insurance coverage for trading vessels. The newspaper survives today to fulfil a similar purpose, although its circulation is now international, both paper and web-based, and it appears daily. As well as shipping news, Lloyd's List today covers marine insurance, offshore energy, logistics, global trade and law. It boasts that for the shipping industry, the paper is "sometimes its conscience, too". Its timely international casualty reports, however, continue to be one of the paper's most important features, and are updated frequently in the Internet edition.
Predecessor publications are known. One historian, Michael Palmer, claims: "No later than January 1692, Lloyd began publishing a weekly newsletter, ‘Ships Arrived at and Departed from several Ports of England, as I have Account of them in London... [and] An Account of what English Shipping and Foreign Ships for England, I hear of in Foreign Ports’". However, claims that Lloyd's List is the oldest or second-oldest continuously published newspaper in the world are disputed. The World Association of Newspapers lists three earlier, extant titles.
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It's a perfect example of how print journalism is going out of fashion, being replaced by digital journalism...
279-year-old Lloyd's List newspaper goes digital
25 September 2013
BBC News
Lloyd's List is to go fully digital from December
A newspaper that began life 279 years ago as a notice pinned to a London coffee shop wall, will be available online only from the end of the year.
The last print publication of Lloyd's List, which carries news for the shipping industry, will be on 20 December.
A survey carried out earlier this year found that only 25 of its customers used the print edition alone.
Lloyd's List has been providing weekly shipping news in London since 1734
Editor Richard Meade said it was "just a natural part of our evolution".
He said the aim had changed little since 1734, when the notice pinned to a coffee shop wall offered customers shipping news and information.
"We haven't changed that much. But now [customers] can access us in any coffee shop in the world," he added.
Mr Meade said that while nostalgia weighed on the company's shoulders, customers paid a premium for information and did not want to wait for it to come by post.
Lloyd's List was founded by Edward Lloyd, who posted details of ship arrivals, departures and casualties on the wall of his coffee shop for the benefit of London's 18th Century maritime community.
An early image of Edward Lloyd's Coffee House in the City of London, where Lloyd's List was originally published in the 18th century
Lloyd's List is one of the world's oldest continuously running journals, having provided weekly shipping news in London as early as 1734. Now published daily, a recent issue was numbered 60,850 (2013). Known simply as 'The List', Lloyd's List was begun by Edward Lloyd, the proprietor of Lloyd's Coffee House in the City of London as a reliable but terse source of information for the merchants' agents and insurance underwriters who met regularly in his establishment in Lombard Street to negotiate insurance coverage for trading vessels. The newspaper survives today to fulfil a similar purpose, although its circulation is now international, both paper and web-based, and it appears daily. As well as shipping news, Lloyd's List today covers marine insurance, offshore energy, logistics, global trade and law. It boasts that for the shipping industry, the paper is "sometimes its conscience, too". Its timely international casualty reports, however, continue to be one of the paper's most important features, and are updated frequently in the Internet edition.
Predecessor publications are known. One historian, Michael Palmer, claims: "No later than January 1692, Lloyd began publishing a weekly newsletter, ‘Ships Arrived at and Departed from several Ports of England, as I have Account of them in London... [and] An Account of what English Shipping and Foreign Ships for England, I hear of in Foreign Ports’". However, claims that Lloyd's List is the oldest or second-oldest continuously published newspaper in the world are disputed. The World Association of Newspapers lists three earlier, extant titles.
BBC News - 279-year-old Lloyd's List newspaper goes digital
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd's_List