(31 Dec 2013, 4:15 pm)fozzovmurton wrote Pretty much the same reason the Echo packed in, I think it said before the Norwich game, Sunderland have not kicked off at home at 3pm Saturday for ages...This and the rise of Smartphones, Internet and a rolling results service on SSN.

It has also shot up in price, it was 50p in 2008 and has gone up 100% since then to £1 today, the final nail really was the decision to move to a Sunday Morning Sports Paper, and I am not too sure, I think it was being printed out of the Region and had to be transported up here...

Fair play to the Echo for keeping it going for so long, but I bet it barely covered it's costs...Would not surprise me at all if Paywalls became the norm for papers

I was reading an article about paywalls the other day.
Can't remember specific figures, but it used The Sun as an example.
Paper sales are down and paywall subscribers are up, keeping readership at a slightly lower level - however profits at the paper are down.

Not sure how other papers are doing.