The papers in the troubled
New Jersey group had the biggest daily and Sunday circulation losses across Gannett in the past six months, a Deutsche Bank study of newly released circulation data show. The Audit Bureau of Circulations data,
released yesterday, were for the six months ended Sept. 30.
From the Deutsche analysis:
- Biggest daily loser: the Courier News in Bridgewater: 26,805, down 14.7% from 31,414 a year before.
- Biggest Sunday loser: the Daily Record in Morristown: 33,949, down 10% from 37,704.
The investment bank's study includes almost every Gannett paper. Figures for the Asbury Park Press are incorrect, however; I'm trying to get the correct data from the study's authors.
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PDF is fine. It's not like this is 1996...
ReplyDeleteYes, just upload it to some free webserver site like geocites and then just link to it here. We can download it fine.
ReplyDeleteJust take a look at which dinosaurs are running those papers and its no wonder why they are doing so poorly. Funny thing is that they'll likely end up keeping all those mid-level managers and cut the worker bees during this next round of layoffs. Go figure.
ReplyDeleteBoth newspapers are a joke around the local communities. Management has their heads so far in the clouds that it is ridiculous.
ReplyDeleteYou can cut $ paste from a pdf file. Just use the selection tool.
ReplyDeleteAnd, in just a few days, Gannett will surrender delivery of the Daily Record to PCF (http://www.pcfcorp.com/news.aspx?prid=120).
ReplyDeleteThough, don’t worry as NJ’s relatively new Sr. VP of Circulation, Gary DiSanto used “Bonus Days” in Cincinnati to buy significant circulation gains there (used at least 44 times a year). And, now that he doesn’t have to worry about delivery as much he’ll obviously have more time to strategize how to implement it in NJ.
Courier News dropped their NIE program - no one left to run it and e-edition out of APP apparently isn't being implemented. What a shame.
ReplyDeleteSo the genius editor of the Record (formerly the genius editor of the Courier News) strikes again. When will Alexandria realize this guy is the kiss of death for newspapers? Never, because slimy, gladhanding, backstabbing, double-talkers like him always survive.
ReplyDeleteAlexandria? Corporate is in McClean.
ReplyDeleteStop lumping NJ together. Two papers are lumped together for real and should become one, but the rest of us are not interchangable.
And ditto, for every person who is spending the workday padding their resume and Twittering their coworkers, the rest of us are busting a$# to update the Web, cover the news (remember the news?), keep up with endless mandates, catch errors and double check facts with no help, help other departments in the newsroom, and try to keep each other sane.
I am looking, but on my own time and not because I want to. I just know I have to and that breaks my heart.
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ReplyDeleteA POINT OF VIEW OVERLOOKED:
ReplyDeleteGANNETT'S VULNERABLE HOME DELIVERY May Break-Down ??
This morning productions problems lead to situation where home delivery trucks were 2+ hours late. Carriers left to get to other jobs. Not enough of US (Gannett Workers) to get paper out on time.
That's a very very fragile distribution system, that even P.C.F. won't fix.
After carriers Christmas Tips from much much fewer customers BOMBS. Tehy are going to leave. It only takes a 10% exodus of carriers to cripple us.
And even in a bad economy, people desperate for money won't work delivering papaers for $0.13 ($0.25 on Sunday) when they have to beat the crap out of their own cars and pay for their own gas.
If we don't have carriers, we can't get the papers out on time, we get more cancellations....it's a self-reinforcing feedback loop to oblivian.
We are still waiting for the circulation numbers for Westchester, can anyone help us?
ReplyDelete11 a.m.: Here's what you're looking for:
ReplyDeleteAs of Sept. 30, The Journal News: 101,484 daily, down 9.6% from Sept. 30, 2007; 121,754 Sunday, down 5.5%.
hey 8:22, one of his prior ships that sank had churn in the 70% range at the time he left. imagine being a pub and having to replace 70% of your circ in a year...
ReplyDeleteCome on people, everyone in Jersey knows the Courier News and Daily Record are awful, awful papers that should have packed it in a long time ago. It's amazing they still exist.
ReplyDeleteAnyone know anything about The Tennessean's numbers.
ReplyDeleteIt's a really bad newspaper and just reduced the width of the paper with a redesign. It looks worse than my college newspaper.
The website is a disaster.
Silverman and Leifeld are sinking this ship here based on bad decisions and killing employee morale.
1:01 p.m.: Here's your answer:
ReplyDeleteThe Tennessean: 151,713 daily, down 5.3% from 160,243 on Sept. 30, 2007; 210,277 Sunday, down 5.6% from 222,754.
Jim, one more. Do you have the Courier-Post's numbers?
ReplyDelete1:36 p.m.: Here you go:
ReplyDeleteCourier-Post in Cherry Hill, N.J.: 62,242 daily, down 7.8% from 67,528 on Sept. 30, 2007; 75,097 Sunday, down 5.3% from 75,097.
Jim, what about The Courier-Journal's circ numbers?
ReplyDelete3:09 p.m.: Here you go:
ReplyDeleteThe Courier-Journal, Louisville, Ky.: 193,298 daily, down 6.7% from 207,113 on Sept. 30, 2007. Sunday: 268,942, up (!) 3.4% from 260,003 a year before.
And Des Moines?
ReplyDelete3:17 p.m.: The Des Moines Register: 135,756, down 3.9% from 141,330 on Sept. 30, 2007. Sunday: 219,745, down 4.4% from 229,757.
ReplyDeleteNote: The full Deutsche Bank report is now available for download, right here on Gannett Blog. Here's how.
ReplyDeleteGo to The Teletype Room widget at the bottom of the blue sidebar, right. The first file is now DB Newspapers -- Sept. 08. Click on the file, hit the download button, then choose where to save it. The Gannett data is in Figure 14 on page nine.
Looks like Gannett has the largest average circ loss for large chains.
ReplyDeleteWho would have guessed that?
"Courier News dropped their NIE program - no one left to run it and e-edition out of APP apparently isn't being implemented. What a shame."
ReplyDeleteI don't understand your reference to NIE at the Asbury Park Press. It's still active here, and we still publish the monthly student essay contest winners both in print and online editions.
I'm sorry to hear the CN let that go. Children should learn how to read a newspaper and compare traditional news gathering analytically against new media style that are more exposed to them.
Is this a typo?
ReplyDeleteNJ Asbury Park Press 69,183 70,470 -1.8% 82,599 85,280 -3.1%
The APP is well below 100,000?
Those figures for the Asbury Park Press are incorrect, according to the study's authors. I expect to have a correct figure for APP tomorrow morning.
ReplyDeleteYou seem to have a wrong number in the Courier Post circulation, how can they be down on Sunday if the numbers are the same???
ReplyDeleteD'oh! Sorry about that, 8:59 a.m. Here you go:
ReplyDeleteCourier-Post: 62,242 daily, down 7.8% from 67,528 on Sept. 30, 2007. Sunday: 75,097, down 5.3% from 79,321.
Hey guys, remember that many of the people who work for these papers are trying their best to get good news in. The Daily Record does some good journalism when we are able. Unfortunately, as others have pointed out, our editor doesn't let us very often. He cares little -- I'm being kind, it's perhaps not at all -- about news. I know it's tough everywhere, but I have to believe that if we gave people local news they would continue to read the paper. Of course, in its new, mini size, it looks like a joke.
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