Along the Way: the Death of Print Media

The death of print media is never a momentary collapse, but a long, dignified, and helpless slow exit. The first eighteen years of the 21st century were a complete cycle of Chinese urban newspapers growing wildly, reaching the peak of glory, and then suddenly declining and falling into silence. In Lanzhou, an important town in the northwest, the Yellow River passes through the city, carrying the sediment of the years. It has witnessed the fireworks of a city and the ups and downs of a local urban newspaper. "Lanshan Metropolis Daily" started from a grassroots team of more than a dozen people in a dilapidated office building. It swept the northwest newspaper market with market news and people's livelihood, and became the urban memory of a generation. Finally, in the wave of mobile Internet, the ink cooled, the pen and ink was sealed, and the publication was quietly suspended. This is not the history of the rise and fall of a newspaper, but the epitaph of the youth of a generation of media people. It is a true epitome of a traditional industry being crushed, iterated, and eliminated by the torrent of the times.