To the Presses! NY Times Prints More Post-Election Copies

Photograph by John Niedermeyer at nedward.org

With newspapers flying off newsstands and trucks--even being swiped from neighbors -- the NY Times will print another 50,000 copies of its post-election issue, according to Editor & Publisher.

Perhaps seeing the line of people outside the NY Times Building helped seal the decision--John Niedermeyer writes "there are a hundred or so people standing on line outside the Times headquarters, waiting for a fresh delivery of news, printed on dead trees." NYTimes.com design director Khoi Vinh has more photographs and says:

People working on that floor hadn’t noticed yet that the line was forming, and when they realized its purpose, a feeling of delight swept over the newsroom like the friendliest wildfire I’d ever seen. Reporters, editors, photographers, everyone started clapping, hooting and hollering that people still find the newspaper valuable enough to wait dozens of people deep in line for their chance to buy a copy.

The Washington Post is working on getting a special edition on stands by the afternoon and the Chicago Tribune and LA Times are also printing more copies.

Update: Sally Tomato tells us that the Times building "was paper-less until about an hour ago. The first delivery came in - they gave a bunch to the building and the rest they're selling outside on the street! There's a line down the block! And they'll only sell 1 per person at a time. If someone wants more, they have to stand in line again."

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By Jen Chung in News on November 5, 2008 2:31 PM

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consacepo

NYCSniper is right. Soon more people will have jobs, so more people will spend money, thus you'll have to wait in lines to buy things.

consacepo

HUGO_MEGO

hehe, I bought 7.

Spirit of 76

HUGO_MEGO bought six. To line his bird cage.

This isn't so bad. Other big events have started runs on papers. And those events were often bad ones, like 9/11 or the 2003 blackout. About time people wanted to buy them because of good news.

Clarice City

This is for people who save newspapers.....

Dirk

I got a copy of El Diario.

ed_Extinct

at 530 am

ed_Extinct

I got 4!

neckbeard

@9

-new laws aimed at keeping work forces here in america.

-a government that is responsible and competent enough to work within a budget, cut spending where it needs to be cut, and both create jobs that help us work towards new energy sources as well as offer higher pay and more incentives to gov't employees (teachers, police, etc.)

as a big obama supporter, my one worry is that people think these things will happen without sacrifice. i think its fair to believe that it will get worse before it gets better, but there is a future to worry about, and obama seems to understand that.