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 →
Celebrating @woodwriter (David Wood's) Pulitzer Prize with @dcorneal and @bethfrerking and @ariannahuf http://t.co/4HO6RahZ Continue reading →
Celebrating @woodwriter (David Wood's) Pulitzer Prize with @dcorneal and @bethfrerking and @ariannahuf http://t.co/4HO6RahZ Continue reading →
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Posted a few minutes ago I work as the head dental hygienist in a Washington, D.C. dentist's office. Anywhere around D.C., you're going to get all the high profile politicians coming in. Throughout my career, I've worked at over 50 dentist's offices in the greater D.C. area.I used to do a lot of temp work – especially when the economy was better, you could just find well-playing temp work and have lots of flexibility. Whenever I temped at periodonist offices, there'd be Senators and Supreme Court Justices who needed gum work. I guess they're too busy running the country to floss. Lobbyists, on the other hand, care a lot about their teeth. A lot of them want cosmetic dentistry.I've seen a lot. Once, I flossed ... Continue reading →
