{"id":2132,"date":"2009-07-08T10:27:21","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T14:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=2132"},"modified":"2009-07-08T11:47:10","modified_gmt":"2009-07-08T15:47:10","slug":"bay-state-banner-shutting-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/07\/08\/bay-state-banner-shutting-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Bay State Banner shutting down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unless an angel investor steps forward, the <em>Bay State Banner<\/em> &#8211; Boston&#8217;s only newspaper exclusively covering the African-American community since 1965 &#8211; <a title=\"will fold\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/ae\/media\/articles\/2009\/07\/08\/as_bay_state_banner_closes_black_community_loses_a_voice\/\" target=\"_blank\">will fold <\/a>after tomorrow&#8217;s edition.\u00a0 College of Communication Professor <a title=\"Lou Ureneck\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/about\/faculty\/lou_ureneck.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Lou Ureneck<\/a>, the Journalism Department chair and authority on the business of newspapers, says the whole industry is in trouble and ethnic-niche papers are particularly vulnerable in this recession.<\/p>\n<p>Contact Lou Ureneck, 617-353-4095, <a href=\"mailto:lureneck@bu.edu\">lureneck@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unless an angel investor steps forward, the Bay State Banner &#8211; Boston&#8217;s only newspaper exclusively covering the African-American community since 1965 &#8211; will fold after tomorrow&#8217;s edition.\u00a0 College of Communication Professor Lou Ureneck, the Journalism Department chair and authority on the business of newspapers, says the whole industry is in trouble and ethnic-niche papers are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1432,1431,1228],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2132"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2142,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132\/revisions\/2142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}