New York Times to consolidate paper
Written on September 6, 2008
The New York Times Co plans to consolidate some sections in the metropolitan edition of its namesake newspaper to reduce costs, the publisher said on Friday.
Starting Monday, October 6, the paper will blend its Metro section with its main news section on Monday through Saturday and combine its business and sports pages into one section on Tuesday through Friday.
The “A” section includes the Times’ international and national news reports as well as the editorial and opinion pages.
“Given the business challenges we face, we are constantly looking for ways to reduce costs that do not affect the quality or quantity of the journalism we provide to our readers,” Times Co Chairman and New York Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr wrote in a memo to staff released on Friday.
“We are not reducing the space devoted to Metro or Sports news,” Sulzberger wrote payday loans. “This is simply a way to produce the paper more efficiently.”
The changes will only affect the New York edition because the national edition already is set up in a similar fashion, Sulzberger wrote.
Times spokeswoman Catherine Mathis declined to say how much money the paper will save.
An article posted on the Times website on Friday quoted unidentified executives as saying the savings would be several million dollars a year.
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