It's a miserable day when a newspaper goes out of business. But that's what's happening this afternoon in Cincinnati, leaving a dwindling number of U.S. cities with more than one paper. The Cincinnati Post, in a joint operating agreement with The Cincinnati Enquirier, publishes its last edition as it falls victim to forces that killed off scores of other afternoon papers. Owner E.W. Scripps "explored ways to continue publishing -- as a free daily, as a website or with a new business partner,'' The New York Times says today, "but decided in July to shut both the Cincinnati and Kentucky versions of the paper, which had suffered a combined circulation decline to 27,000 from a peak of 275,000 in 1961."With the Post ending its 126-year run, fewer than 10 cities will have two or more daily newspapers. In Detroit, Gannett publishes the Detroit Free Press in a JOA with MediaNews Group's Detroit News.
Department of This Really Sucks: The Post's 52 employees were given severance packages, but only one was offered another job within Scripps, the NYT says.
[Image, this morning's Free Press, Newseum]
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