NY Times Plans To Cut Sunday "City Section"

Your print edition of the NY Times may be getting slimmer and slimmer. According to the Observer's sources, "The New York Times plans to eliminate several weekly sections, including its stand-alone City Section," plus "There are also discussions to eliminate the regional weeklies in New Jersey, Long Island, Westchester and Connecticut, and the Friday Escapes section as well." This is the latest in a series of moves that the newspaper is taking to cut costs (last week, layoffs and salary cuts were announced) and it seems the City section, which arrived on Sundays with lengthy features about blog commenters and the subway, may only have four more issues left. Here are Times executive editor Bill Keller's remarks to the newsroom—one question left unanswered: What will the Weekender do?!? Also, last October is when the Metro section was rolled into Section A.

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By Jen Chung in News on March 30, 2009 6:15 PM

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MaiaW

Dude, no Metro section and now no City section? Ugh.

fugothamist

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENu_06t9xl4

ed_Extinct

cut the book review, reading is overrated anyway...

Brooklynbobby

I stopped buying it months ago. At $4.00 a pop, it's not worth it.

glennQNYC

Maybe Obama should fire the CEO of the NYT too.

Snoopy

Somewhere in a northwest forest a celebration is being held. Trees that thought they would never see their offspring's offspring. And now they see hope and a future that their parent's parents thought would never come.

schizofriendly

I'm happy for trees too, Snoopy.

Still, I'm sorry for folks at the NYT who are being axed.

Kevin Walsh

Sulzberger is bent on removing the reasons I read his paper.

www.forgotten-ny.com

Brian R Callahan

Why don't they change their whole strategy before they have to do away with the front page too?

Brian R. Callahan

New York, NY

Brian R Callahan

Why don't they vhange their whole strategy before they have to do away with the front page too?

Brian R. Callahan

New York, NY

satanslaundromat

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Toby von Meistersinger

Can't think of a reason to buy the Times without it.

BongoBoy

The City section is nullified because the blogs and weeklies get to the stories first ... then the Times usually tries to do the same stories too ... with or without attribution ... but without the twist that makes certain Times neighborhood stories special.

cool

it's already been well-neutered over the last year or so. There used to be many more neighborhood features, and you'd even get the odd coverage of some community board meetings.

colonelcasey

The City was one of the nicer sections I liked reading. Why don't they get rid of some other useless section like Thursday Styles and Escapes instead?