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Advance Publications, owned by the Newhouse family, said Thursday it would scale back the printed edition to three days a week and impose staff cuts as a way to reduce costs as well as shift its emphasis to expanded online coverage. The decision will leave New Orleans as the most prominent American city without a newspaper that is printed every day. But it also reflects the declining lure of the paper as a printed product. In 2005, before Katrina struck, the paper had a daily circulation of 261,000; in March of this year, the circulation was 132,000. The developments were the latest instance of reorganization in a rapidly changing industry, which continues to struggle with declining advertising revenue and the changing preferences of readers for ... Continue reading →

With today’s updates to its flagship iPad and iPhone apps, The New York Times is adapting to a world of always-on but slower-than-you’d-like data networks. The new versions, just approved by Apple and in the App Store, feature two key improvements. First, it turns on automatic downloading of all the Times’ content overnight as you sleep — meaning you’ll be able to avoid the frustrating experience of launching the app only to have it spend precious seconds fetching the latest news from Times servers. (The previous version updated some top stories overnight, but not the full paper’s worth of content.) And second, it lets you save a little bandwidth (a concern these days) by declaring entire sections uninteresting. Never read the Times’ Fashion & Style ... Continue reading →

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