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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTimes-Picayune (New Orleans) to stop daily print publication
A new company - the NOLA Media Group, which will include The Times-Picayune and its affiliated web site NOLA.com - was announced today by Ricky Mathews, who will become its president. The change is intended to reshape how the New Orleans area's dominant news organization delivers its award-winning local news, sports and entertainment coverage in an increasingly digital age.
NOLA Media Group will significantly increase its online news-gathering efforts 24 hours a day, seven days a week, while offering enhanced printed newspapers on a schedule of three days a week. The newspaper will be home-delivered and sold in stores on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays only. A second new company, Advance Central Services, will print and deliver the newspaper. Both of the new companies are owned by Advance Publications.
The decision to form a new company signals a change in the way news is delivered to an increasingly wired New Orleans area audience, said Mathews. Jim Amoss, currently editor of The Times-Picayune, will run the combined content operation of NOLA Media Group.
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Mathews said the three days of publication were chosen in part so that the print edition is distributed across the entire week, but also because Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays have proved to be the most valuable days for the newspaper's advertisers.
NOLA Media Group will significantly increase its online news-gathering efforts 24 hours a day, seven days a week, while offering enhanced printed newspapers on a schedule of three days a week. The newspaper will be home-delivered and sold in stores on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays only. A second new company, Advance Central Services, will print and deliver the newspaper. Both of the new companies are owned by Advance Publications.
The decision to form a new company signals a change in the way news is delivered to an increasingly wired New Orleans area audience, said Mathews. Jim Amoss, currently editor of The Times-Picayune, will run the combined content operation of NOLA Media Group.
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Mathews said the three days of publication were chosen in part so that the print edition is distributed across the entire week, but also because Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays have proved to be the most valuable days for the newspaper's advertisers.
http://www.nola.com/business/index.ssf/2012/05/nolamediagroup.html
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Times-Picayune (New Orleans) to stop daily print publication (Original Post)
MountainLaurel
May 2012
OP
When my dad died in 1999, the obituary was $50, In 2006, my mom's was $1000
proud2BlibKansan
May 2012
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ag_dude
(562 posts)1. I feel bad for newspapers until...
...I call and try to post a $10/hr part time job.
It was going to be over $1,000 for a one week run here in San Antonio.
Posted it to Craigslist and got 23 replies in 24-hours.
proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)3. When my dad died in 1999, the obituary was $50, In 2006, my mom's was $1000
Same newspaper. And my mom's obit was shorter.
Blew us away.
fishwax
(29,149 posts)4. .
proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)5. And how do you say 'never mind' when it's your mom's obituary?
Damn newspaper. Every one of us stopped subscribing that day.
fishwax
(29,149 posts)6. don't blame you -- what a shock
for a grieving family.
msongs
(67,441 posts)2. great, fewer issues = much lower ad rates right? oh, never mind nt