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[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Peter Wayner <p3 () wayner org>
Date: January 24, 2006 4:59:15 PM EST
To: David Farber <dave () farber net>, Newmedia () aol com
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: Newmedia () aol com
> Date: January 24, 2006 4:18:52 PM EST
> To: dave () farber net
> 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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