
You might forgive the staff of the New Orleans Times-Picayune if they woke up with fuzzy heads and heavy hearts on Friday. They, and their city, suffered a body blow Thursday, when Newhouse Newspapers, a division of Advance Publications, announced the paper will no longer be printed each day. Jackson Square in New Orleans (Photo credit: Wikipedia) But the numbers that led to that decision are not definitive, which is giving hope to a nascent movement called Save The Picayune. Launched barely 24 hours ago, it already is growing via a Twitter account and Facebook page. Courtesy of the New York Times, which broke the story late Wednesday, take a look at these two numbers. Times-Picayune circulation, pre-Hurricane Katrina, 2005: 261,000 copies. Times-Picayune circulation, March, ...
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