Big-time GateHouse sports layoffs in New England

[LanceyHoward]

Norwich is going to a 7:45 copy deadline, which if you ask me, you might as well just become an afternoon paper at that point.

Spent 15 years there. What a shame.

The Celtics beat writer? Is that Jim Fenton?

I keep expecting small papers to scrap carrier delivery and just drop bundles off at your local post office, which in effect would turn them into afternoon papers.

 

[Twirling Time]

I keep expecting small papers to scrap carrier delivery and just drop bundles off at your local post office, which in effect would turn them into afternoon papers.

Not just that, but Saturday news would also (likely) be hitting mailboxes on Tuesday, which in effect would turn them into semi-weekly papers.

 

[LanceyHoward]

Not just that, but Saturday news would also (likely) be hitting mailboxes on Tuesday, which in effect would turn them into semi-weekly papers.

I think it is possible for the post office to make a delivery on the same day as receipt if you get it there early enough. It requires some coordination but I think there are some papers doing it, like bundling the papers by mail carrier route. But if memory serves when I lived in Northern Virginia in the 90's the local suburban paper (the Journal?) was being delivered by mail and I got same day service. And I think I have read about papers doing it on this board.

 

[sgreenwell]

I hope the New York Times continues to see profits increase. I own a miniscule amount of stock for my meager portfolio.


Has Gatehouse quietly closed any of their New England weeklies?

When they acquired the Newport Daily News, that came with a weekly newspaper and a monthly magazine attached to that paper. It was sold within six months.

 

[crimsonace]

I keep expecting small papers to scrap carrier delivery and just drop bundles off at your local post office, which in effect would turn them into afternoon papers.

Most small newspapers in my area have been doing that for years.

At my old shop (a Tu-Sa daily), the Saturday paper is carrier-delivered, but the rest of the deliveries are all handled by the USPS.

It used to be a PM paper, but after it switched to mail delivery, it now has an AM deadline cycle but comes in the mail at the same time as the old PM used to.