Today was the first day of the NY Times' new section consolidation. The main difference is that the Metro section is no longer--Metro-related stories are now in Section A Monday through Saturday. Business and Sports will be combined Tuesday through Friday (just think--after reading about your tanking stocks, you get to read about the crappy Knicks!). As the letter from NY Times Senior VP of Marketing and Circulation Yasmin Namini said, "Please note that were......

There have been worries that NJ's biggest paper, the Star-Ledger, will close, as it has been losing $30-40 million a year. The publisher outlined that it could stay opened if 200 buyouts are accepted by staff and union concession are met. Last week, its mailers union agreed to a new deal and yesterday the deliverers union reached a deal with Advance. Now all that's left is finding 200 employees willing to take buyouts, but Advance......

Photo of editor Seth Lipsky addressing The Sun staff yesterday courtesy Konrad Fiedler/The Sun. Despite a record-breaking month for advertising revenues, The Sun published its last edition today. Started in 2002, the neoconservative daily lasted just long enough to publish on the first day of Rosh Hashanah, surviving into year 5769 of the Jewish calendar. Editor Seth Lipsky addressed the staff in the paper's Lower Manhattan newsroom yesterday; excerpts from his remarks were published......

It's almost the end of September and the NY Sun's future is still questionable. The NY Times looks at the fate of the broadsheet and speaks with its editor Seth Lipsky, who says, "I haven’t raised all that I need, but I’ve raised a lot," but admitted the paper is in a "tight spot." Still some wonder if the paper can ever be profitable; currently, its paid circulation is 14,000 and "it gives away about......

The Observer reports that the NY Times will announce later today "that it plans to cut the number of sections it has in the paper during some days of the week and it will fold in the Metro Section and Sports section into other sections of the newspaper." Sources tell the Observer, "the Metro Section is moving into the A-section and the Sports section will move into the Business section for some portion of the......

In today's NY Sun, there's a letter from editor Seth Lipsky warning that the paper may fold at the end of the month if they don't "find additional financial backing" (he calls current investors keeping the paper afloat "heroic"). Lipsky acknowledges their goal "of providing an alternative to the New York Times in coverage of New York City, politics, foreign policy, and culture" "was an optimistic project," but is proud of its "journalistic credibility and......

The MTA is sick and tired of your careless newspaper disposal, so they made a mock newspaper to school you in changing your ways! WNBC reports on the Subway Gazette, which outlines the hot topics underground, including how your trash can lead to subway delays.Once on the tracks, trash can help spark track fires or clog drains along the roadbed and that can lead to flooding. Smoke conditions and flooding lead to delays in train......

The local papers have weighed in and made the Mets' firing of manager Willie Randolph their number 1, 2 and 3 topics. Angry over how Randolph was fired (flying him all the way out to Los Angeles?!? And Omar Minaya claiming that the media speculation pushed him to fire Randolph?), yes, but the tabloids were probably angry over something else: The fact that the firing took place around midnight PST/3 a.m. ESt, which meant it was too late to get into yesterday papers! So today, it's all about the Mets....

The Post is doubling its weekday price to 50 cents. Why? It's the "result of increased production and transportation costs." The Post's owner, News Corp./Rupert Murdoch, first offered the tabloid for 25 cents in 2000. When the Post managed to surpass its archrival, the NY Daily News, in circulation in 2007, the Post went back on sale at 50 cents, but for only 10 days, leading Daily News editor Martin Dunn to say, "We did......

If there's one thing to warm up New Yorkers - and New York newspaper editors thinking about a holiday issue - today, it's the Giants' NFC Championship win over the Green Bay Packers. Let's look at how they touted the big win. The Post opts for quarterback Eli Manning on the cover and kicker Lawrence Tynes on the back sports cover. Points for puns on both headlines. The Daily News and Newsday both use the......

When we saw today’s edition of The New York Times we did a double take since it was in black and white above the fold. The black and white fifty year old photo of presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his father gave a classic retro look to the paper, making newsstands throughout the city look like there was a bit of a time warp among the stacks of newspapers. You may remember that the......