Day: June 18, 2012

Last week on TP chop shop day I was in Jackson satisfying my annual continuing education requirements. The banter in the room included a collegue from the Starkpatch area bemoaning the fact demand declines for newsprint was hurting a local pulpwood mill and how the pain was certain to get worse with the “Alabama newspapers” cutting back to three days a week.

To the extent rural Mississippi depends on the timber and wood products for well paying jobs, that which has happened in NOLA, Birmingham, Mobile and Huntsville is being monitored by what at first glance are unlikely observers.

So for those so interested in an industry that tanked like the print media after the housing bubble broke, check out the Forest 2 Market blog. The bottom line is the structural changes in the media are also bringing change to other places.

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