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The LA Times has seen a plunge in home delivery:
an analysis of newspaper circulation by Prudential Equity Group LLC found that the Times lost more than 100,000 paid home-delivery subscribers between March 2004 and March 2005. The drop in home delivery was 18.1 percent – the sharpest decline among the 10 largest U.S. newspapers.
I know they lost us years before we moved to Florida.
I've got an idea, guys and gals. How about putting out a newspaper that will appeal to the region, instead of just the tony liberal Democrats in West LA and Santa Monica?
Posted by Rand Simberg at August 19, 2005 08:13 AM
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-And bring back locally-produced Sunday magazine sections of regional interest and dump the 'everything is wonderful' Romper-room of PARADE!
Posted by SpaceCat at August 19, 2005 09:29 AM
Well, if they catered their paper out of Barnes and Noble or other booksellers exclusively, then they could count on an upswing in sales. All major booksellers are good at selling fiction.
Posted by Mac at August 19, 2005 09:43 AM
During the aerospace depression of the early to mid 90s, when something like 650,000 engineers/technicians/workers lost their jobs nationally, the LA Times gave far less coverage to the suffering of the people involved than they did to the midwest farm "crisis", in spite of the fact that over 200,000 of those jobs were in their own back yard. When the LAT joins the other newspapers in the dead tree cemetary, I'll be happy to dance a jig on their grave.
Posted by K at August 20, 2005 12:07 AM
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