Three days a week in Syracuse

The parent company of the Syracuse Post-Standard announced re-org today that includes publishing its paper version only three days a week and a focus on digital efforts. Said the paper's publisher: "We are living through a digital revolution ... This is an irreversible trend. We either adjust, or we perish." Advance Publications, which owns the Post-Standard, has done this with other papers around the country -- including Ann Arbor, Michigan where it basically killed its newspaper in favor of a new website. (The head of Digital First Media -- which is now the umbrella company for the Troy Record and Saratogian -- told the NYT earlier this summer that the company would eventually consider it.) [Syracuse Post-Standard] [NYT]

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Just got my renewal for The Record - I think I'll hang on to it for a bit - the paper has been so thin lately, 3x a week wouldn't surprise me - their online still needs some beefing up though

I don't mourn the days when news was distributed only through print; I do mourn the days when news was news and not entertainment.

Advance Publications also owns the New Orleans Times-Picayune, whose switch to three days a week was met with a huge public outcry and offers from various companies to buy the paper and keep it printing seven days a week. No such outcry in Syracuse. Though I did hear a lot of complaining from my parents, daily newspaper subscribers since 1965 or so.

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