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 →
D. Gorton/The New York Times Stanley and Julie Patz in their SoHo apartment in 1979, as police officials answer phones in the disappearance of their son Etan Patz, 6. The boy’s disappearance led to improved response measures to reports of missing children. It began — the uncertainty that darkened into anguish, the lurking sense of loss, the sudden expansion of people’s vocabularies to encompass phrases like “stranger danger” — on the day when a little boy talked his parents into saying yes to the kind of question every child asks, and when the answer is “no, not yet,” asks again and again: Can I walk to the bus stop by myself? Please? He had only a block and a half to go, past cast-iron storefronts ... Continue reading →
Conference realignment has once again been a hot topic the past few weeks, but Virginia Tech Athletic Director Jim Weaver has done his best to dispel the notion that the Hokies are looking to leave the ACC. On Wednesday, Weaver reiterated what he said last fall when rumors popped up that Virginia Tech could be invited to join the Southeastern Conference soon, saying the Hokies have no plans to go anywhere right now and have not spoken with any other conference about switching leagues. “Our current position is we’re very happy where we are in the Atlantic Coast Conference,” Weaver said on the SiriusXM radio show, CFB Playbook. “We’ve wanted to be here in the conference since the conference was started in 1953. We’re right ... Continue reading →
A brief, semi-fictional history of hysteria in college athletics: undefinedFrom: Chancellor Harvey Perlman To: Select donors, boosters and alumni Date: June 6, 2010. Fellow Cornhuskers: I wanted to let you know that Nebraska is formally preparing to leave the Big 12 for the Big Ten. There is more money to be earned in that conference, thanks to the Big Ten Network, and we can't tolerate any league-office favoritism that doesn't favor us. If anyone asks you about the move, say it's a 100-year decision based on what's best for our institution. Then blame the ransacking of tradition and loss of rivalries on power-hungry Texas. And if anyone brings up our slip in prestige over the past 10 years – thank you, Bill Callahan – blame ... Continue reading →
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