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Written by asap
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Tuesday, 18 July 2006 |
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 NEW YORK — Less news that’s fit to print?
The New York Times said in Tuesday’s edition that it would shrink the size of its pages in April 2008, making them one-and-a-half inches narrower.
“That’s a number that I think we can live with quite comfortably,” Executive Editor Bill Keller was quoted as saying. “The smaller news space would require tighter editing and putting some news in digest form.”
The reduction means losing 11 percent of the space devoted to news, but the newspaper said it will add pages to make up for about half of that loss. So that means about 5 1/2 percent less news.
“It’s painful to watch an industry retrench,” Keller said. “But this is a much less painful way to go about assuring our economic survival than cutting staff or closing foreign bureaus or retrenching our investigative reporting or diluting the Washington bureau.”
Other newspapers have cut their size too — notably USA Today and The Washington Post. The industry points to rising newsprint costs and the loss of readers and ad dollars to the Internet.
OTHER CHANGES
- The paper also plans to close a printing plant in Edison, N.J., and shift workload to another in New York City, saving an estimated $42 million per year.
- And it will cut 250 jobs, about one-third of the Times’ total production work force of 800.
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