The New Orleans Times-Picayune May Reduce Frequency of Publication -- NY Times

They will. It'll be online.

 

If you think a crapton of sportswriters get dinged here, just wait until college football conferences and the NFL decide they no longer need ESPN's platform to broadcast their games. The day's coming, and when it does...jeebus will there be a bloodletting. ESPN has no other way to strongarm cable companies than football games.

 

I'm sure the "Saints win Super Bowl" headline will look awesome online. Lots of readers will buy that to save.

 

I'm not trying to be flippant here, either. It's very sad the paper's reducing its print schedule. I don't know that sports reporters will get as dinged as editors/designers.

 

I'm sure the paper would put out a special edition. Ditto if a hurricane hits.

 

I'm sure the first cuts will be designers and editors. Cutting back print days, it makes sense that that's where the cuts would come. I'm just baffled that they wouldn't have a plan for some kind of Monday Saints edition, and not just because I think they should have a Monday paper. I would think the Saints would bring in advertising, and a good chunk of that would be on Mondays. Is it crazy to think they couldn't get enough advertisers to support a 16-page Saints tab each Monday?

 

I figure they would too. Probably would from the beginning of the playoffs. I'd assume ad sales could support that.

 

11 a.m. staff meeting called at the Press-Register. Heard from one of my spies. This ain't gonna be good. I'd be willing to bet the same thing happens to Mobile, Huntsville and Birmingham as well.

 

News like this makes me want to stick my head in the oven, but the damn thing is electric so all I can do is singe my eyebrows.

 

Alabama papers also cutting back to three days per week:

http://blog.al.com/al/2012/05/alabama_media_group_a_new_digi.html

 

Was just about to post this. Beat me to it. All of the "Live" website papers doing this? Crazy...

 

I feel for those folks who are not wired in the region. I'm venturing to guess that's a good portion of the population too.