The core newsroom’s reluctance to support the digital strategy.

This is interesting as my impression is much of the newspaper industries decline as a failure in business leadership and that the newsrooms had just been following orders or unable to effect change.

This suggests that newsrooms, Le Monde's at least, have been resisting the move to more online readership. I wonder what the reason is, there must be an entrenched section of old school editors and writers who still don't understand the online economy. Not something I expected of journalists.