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hurleyfor3
02-27-2009, 11:32 AM
Last issue is today. (http://www.rockymountainnews.com) Denver just becaome a slightly less interesting place. How many two-newspaper towns do we have left?

I have gone out of my way to read Bernie Lincicome's columns ever since he left the Chicago Tribune. Of course it was always online, thus illustrating the problem. Anyway, I hope he finds work somewhere.
DevilAlumna
02-27-2009, 12:46 PM
Seattle is about to drop out of the "Two Newspaper Town" column as well - farewell, Seattle Post-Intelligencer. :(


I tried to do my part a few years ago, and was a daily subscriber, but I found myself at the end of every week, picking up the pile of plastic bags and paper and moving them directly to the recycle bin - I just never had time to read the newsprint. Figured it was better for the environment to give up the subscription.

How soon before print news goes the way of public radio, and starts holding pledge drives?
blazindw
02-27-2009, 02:34 PM
How many two-newspaper towns do we have left?

So far as I know, we have Detroit, NY, Chicago, DC, Boston....that's all I could come up with (I didn't include Seattle since, as the poster above noted, they're about to lose one).
murpho
02-28-2009, 09:41 AM
There are also the locations such as RDU, DFW and Minn-St Paul where technically each city has its own paper. In DFW, the two papers (Dallas Morning News and Ft Worth Star Telegram) have already set up in their sports sections to share writers, with DMN covering the Mavs and printed in both papers and Star Telegram covering the the Rangers. Of course they all will still cover the Cowboys.
hurleyfor3
02-28-2009, 01:32 PM
Seattle is about to drop out of the "Two Newspaper Town" column as well - farewell, Seattle Post-Intelligencer. :(



Aw, I like the spinning globe thingy on their building. I hope it stays up.
2535Miles
02-28-2009, 10:30 PM
How soon before print news goes the way of public radio, and starts holding pledge drives?
I hope it's a long, long, long time. It seems to me that the holding a pledge drive would signify beginning of the end for print news. The industry better figure something out quick, because the current business model isn't looking so good.
Mike Corey
03-01-2009, 12:35 AM
So far as I know, we have Detroit, NY, Chicago, DC, Boston....that's all I could come up with (I didn't include Seattle since, as the poster above noted, they're about to lose one).

Charleston, West Virginia has the Charleston Daily Mail and the Charleston Gazette.
murpho
03-06-2009, 03:06 PM
May go online only
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/nm/20090306/tc_nm/us_hearst_pi_2