Morning Media Mix

Sad news: Lloyd’s List, the world’s oldest newspaper—a weekly British journal of shipping news founded in 1734—is giving up on print. (Guardian)

In an interview with the Today show’s Kate Snow, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who recently bought The Washington Post for $250 million, said he thinks that newspapers are a “luxury item,” adding: “It’s sort of like, you know, people still have horses, but it’s not their primary way of commuting to the office.” (Poynter)