Posted on 01/11/2006 3:47:29 AM PST by Liz
GRAY LADY DOWN: Arthur Sulzberger Jr., Times publisher. The New York times is rapidly losing ground in its home market, with daily circulation off 19 percent from 2001 to 2004. Photo: AP
The New York Times lost almost 20 percent of its readers in the five boroughs between 2001 and 2004 as the paper pushed to reinvent itself as a national publication. The Times' daily circulation in New York City dropped 18.7 percent during that period, to 260,526 copies from 320,682, according to figures obtained by The Post and confirmed by the Times.
This means the Times' readership in the five boroughs is roughly 28 percent of its overall circulation. The paper's total circulation rose 0.5 percent to 1,126,190 copies in the most recent six-month period, according to figures filed with the Audit Bureau of Circulations.
In Manhattan, which is still the paper's largest market, sales fell 17 percent, to 166,233 copies from 200,998 over the same four-year period. The biggest drop among the boroughs was in The Bronx, where the number of copies fell to 12,644 papers from 18,296, a decrease of 31 percent.
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"They were advertising 89% off the subscription price! I bet there aren't many takers even at that. I have had my fill of their screed and they can't pay me to take it. "
My 80 year old mother still takes Time, so I still read it every once in a while. But it is like pulling teeth, the pages just drip with innuendo. "If only you were as smart and liberal as we are!"
Nice going.
I wish the New York Times would change its name to "The Al-Quaeda Sentinal" for it would be more accurate..... :-)
I hear Pinch is turning in his key to the executive washroom and is getting a new job in the executive washroom.
My distrust of the MSM is second to none, but I must point out that much of news one reads on the internet has its orgin from the MSM. Note I did not assert all the news.
You should have wrapped it around a brick before you sent it back.
Newspapers make their money from advertisement revenue. You don't make money off of out-of-town sales. Most major-city newspapers will be sold only at transportation sites, because their real audience is travellers.
NYT is simply using low-profit out-of-town sales to mask their terrible readership declines in their own market.
That's not at all---- they are selling off real estate ----a reliable indication, and desperation tactic---that they are pumping the sagging bottom line, probably with questionable accounting methods.
Did the Times ever hear of Sarbanes-Oxley (chuckle)?
ny post and nysun are the two to read---nysun.com great site ,great writers
Nice work---you'll be busy in the days ahead on this topic (snicker)
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