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How good of a newspaper is the Los Angeles Daily News? How is it perceived in Southern California? How much of an impact does it have? What is its circulation? What is the best place to find circulation figures?
Wouldn't the demise of the LANG group be the result of the poor quality of its newspapers rather than the strength of the Los Angeles Times? The Los Angeles Times has gotten worse in recent years.Personally I think the LA Times is going to run the LANG group out of business.
Is this question moot? At what point do the papers that are managed as a cluster become a single paper? Given the cutbacks in staffs how much differentiated content do the papers publish? How much is shared content? The only LANG paper I have seen in years is the Orange County Register so I do not know.A question I asked a few years ago was this (and never got an answer): If a newspaper group headed by a medium-sized paper buys a group that has a paper bigger than your biggest, which becomes the flagship? I.E. The Orange County Register was always bigger and better than the L.A. Daily News. But the LADN buys the group headed by OCR. Who's the boss?
Yup. But Alden's business strategy is to milk the cash cow (this strategy was taught in my MBA program ). Alden is not putting more money into the papers.Wouldn't the demise of the LANG group be the result of the poor quality of its newspapers rather than the strength of the Los Angeles Times? The Los Angeles Times has gotten worse in recent years.
To answer your question, yes, they are basically the same. I get the Riverside Press-Enterprise, but most of the news comes from San Bernardino County, where they have Ontario and San Bernardino mastheads. At least once a week, there is LA news on our "local" page. The photographers work for Southern California News Group, not a specific paper.Is this question moot? At what point do the papers that are managed as a cluster become a single paper? Given the cutbacks in staffs how much differentiated content do the papers publish? How much is shared content? The only LANG paper I have seen in years is the Orange County Register so I do not know.
But I have seen a papers in metros with a population of up to a million that have five or less local bylines in a daily paper. Are the LANG papers basically the same product with different mastheads?
The LAT is the back pages of the Metro section five days per week.