David Carr writes in The New York Times that a year after the Times-Picayune in New Orleans dropped to a thrice weekly paper, the paper will start printing a paper daily. But what it’s printing and who gets it is?. complicated. Here’s how David describes it:
On Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays, a broadsheet called The Times-Picayune will be available for home delivery and on the newsstands for 75 cents. On Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, a tabloid called TPStreet will be available only on newsstands for 75 cents.
In addition, a special electronic edition of TPStreet will be available to the three-day subscribers of the home-delivered newspaper. On Saturdays, there will be early print editions of the Sunday Times-Picayune with some breaking news and some Sunday content.
David also describes how the floundering efforts to make The Times-Picayune more digital has floundered and opened up New Orleans to other competing newspapers who are making inroads in the city.
It sounds like another recipe for failure to me.
A perfect example of why you should not try to change horses in midstream…
I applaud experimentation in opposition to quiet, steady bankruptcy.
You would think newspapers would understand how to run a business. I’m surprised they aren’t doing something like offering HD Paper
Pretty expensive experiment…..just to get rid of an editorial cartoonist and other valued editors ‘n’ writers. Now they can enjoy a noisy, steadier bankruptcy. Please forgive sarcasm as it’s just sickening to see the print world in such a needless suicide mode.