Begin forwarded message:
From: Peter Wayner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: January 24, 2006 4:59:15 PM EST
To: David Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [IP] Good Question more on Could NY Times face a treason
trial?
Uh, according to this article, the NYT saw an small UPTICK in overall
circulation (.5%):
http://business.bostonherald.com/businessNews/view.bg?articleid=120974
The Herald is a competitor to the Boston Globe, another newspaper
owned by the NY Times. So they're playing up the decline in Queens
and the Bronx. (When I lived in Brooklyn, I had to walk about 12
blocks to buy a copy of the NYT. But I get delivery every morning
here in Baltimore.)
And if you add in the 156,000 new paying TimesSelect members, it's
even larger:
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?
vnu_content_id=1001883849
Circulation revenue, however, is down about 3%. So maybe there are
more free copies? I don't know.
But note that expenses are way up (12%).
See the press releases here:
http://www.nytco.com/
So the deeper problem is the cost of newsprint, the cost of energy
and other things, but not "terrible" circulation. Of course,
circulation erosion is a problem hitting other papers and it's an
understandable assumption that it's bad at the NYT as well.
(Disclaimer: I'm just a curious person who does not speak for the
corporation at all, although they sometimes pay me.)
-Peter
On Jan 24, 2006, at 4:44 PM, David Farber wrote:
Begin forwarded message:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: January 24, 2006 4:18:52 PM EST
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [IP] Good Question more on Could NY Times face a
treason trial?
Dave:
Speaking as Wall Street analyst, I suspect that the New York Times
would *welcome* such a trial given a) the boost that it would
probably bring to their circulation (which is in terrible shape, in
case you haven't noticed) and b) they probably wouldn't even have
to pay the legal bill.
After all the newsroom scandals, I can just imagine "Pinch"
forcefully striding across the stage to defend the Times' role as
the new civil liberties sheriff in town . . . <g>
Mark Stahlman
New York City
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