Gothamist: NY Times Sections to Consolidate

Future Taliban

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:01:33 -0500

Please. If I need to know the real facts I'd rather read Pravda.

dooWOP

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:57:07 -0500

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...?

Mr Mel

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:30:39 -0500

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.

Rfive

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:52:49 -0500

where did you see that benji?

benji

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:58:24 -0500

@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."

nomnomnom

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:40:39 -0500

@thenebula - I suspect those wouldn't get cut because they attract advertisers to their niche content.

thenebula

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:16:16 -0500

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.

putch

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:59:14 -0500

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?

handsomedevil

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:56:58 -0500

Yeah, but I heard that that newspaper is, like, just a bunch of lies.

Chinkerfly

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:44:53 -0500

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"

Toby von Meistersinger

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:41:32 -0500

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.