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The Observer reports that the NY Times will announce later today "that it plans to cut the number of sections it has in the paper during some days of the week and it will fold in the Metro Section and Sports section into other sections of the newspaper."
Sources tell the Observer, "the Metro Section is moving into the A-section and the Sports section will move into the Business section for some portion of the week"--due to printing costs. Which makes some sense, but we wonder if advertising is also an issue--the sections have been feeling rather thin lately. The sources also offered a silver lining/ glass-half-full observation: the sections would have more flexibility with later printing deadlines, more opportunity for breaking news.
The Times raised its newsstand price last month and cut an 1.5" from its size last year. And from last week: "The New York Times Company announced today that in July total Company [which includes its other holdings, like the Boston Globe, About.com] revenues from continuing operations decreased 10.1% compared with the same month a year ago. Advertising revenues decreased 16.2% and circulation revenues decreased 0.5%."
Update: From the NY Times:
The Metro report will become part of the newspaper’s A section, which also contains the International and National reports, and the Editorial and Op-Ed pages, on Mondays through Saturdays, and possibly on Sundays, as well.The Sports report will go into the section that begins with Business Day, on Tuesdays through Fridays, while Sports will remain a separate section on weekends and on Mondays.
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If you ever have seen an edition of The Times outside of the tri-state area it doesn't have a Metro Section. It could also be a move to standardize the various editions like the National and Washington into one unified edition.
Circulation may be down, but online presence is still on the up and up "according to Nielsen Online, NYTimes.com had 19.5 million unique visitors in July versus 14.1 million in July 2007, up about 38%, and was the No. 1 newspaper Web site in the United States"
Yeah, but I heard that that newspaper is, like, just a bunch of lies.
I seem to remember a time when metro and sports lived together in a single section. Am I just hallucinating? Why not just go back to that?
Folding the Metro and Sports section into one is a better idea than the one they have floating around now.
If they want to save money, why don't they cut out those special sections no one reads like Style and Home on Thursdays.
@thenebula - I suspect those wouldn't get cut because they attract advertisers to their niche content.
@thenebula - perhaps this would put some perspective on where the NYTimes gets most of their revenue...
"Paul Krugman was observing that even though the political coverage is the part of the media that people like to talk about, it's actually fairly marginal to the business. The New York Times is known for its hard news coverage, but he observes that from a business perspective it's primarily a fashion and food publication that runs a small political news operation on the side. One issue of T Magazine, he says, pays for an entire NYT European bureau."
where did you see that benji?
It makes sense. Lately there have been 4 page Metro sections & 5 page sports sections. Merging sections is the right way to conserve paper, ink, weight and gas.
What a crap newspaper this has evolved into in recent years - it's a wonder they have a sustainable circulation at all. Perhaps, I'm just getting wiser as time goes by...?
Please. If I need to know the real facts I'd rather read Pravda.