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Local or global? The plight of metro newspapers

Posted by Bertrand Pecquerie on January 19, 2006 at 6:00 PM

The announcement that the New York Times has lost close to 20% of its hometown readers since 2001 demonstrates a subtle trend in the newspaper industry that reflects the growing cleavage between which news organizations cover local versus national/international.

This division is proving difficult for large metro papers.

The New York Times is not the only metro paper to be losing local readers. Last autumn's circulation figures showed huge declines in several metro papers, notably at the Boston Globe (-8%) and the San Francisco Chronicle (-16%). The same phenomenon occurred in France, Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands, Portugal, Korea, Japan… In the UK, if metro newspapers maintained their circulation, thanks to the give-aways distributed with the papers!

New York Times losing hometown subscribers as company's stock dives

Posted by John Burke on January 13, 2006 at 2:29 PM

Although the New York Times was virtually the only major American paper to post circulation gains, however modest, in the latest ABC figures, the New York Post reports that the Gray Lady lost nearly 20% of its New York City subscribers between 2001 and 2004. This news accompanies worries about NYT Co.'s sliding stock price and uneasiness in its newsrooms.