Beginning April 20th the daily St. Louis Post-Dispatch will go from 75 cents to $1 an issue. It went from 50 cents to 75 cents about a year ago. Sales declined after that increase.
I’m predicting that by the end of the year (2009) the daily Post-Dispatch will cease publication. They may still do a Sunday paper but I’m guessing they’ll probably price themselves out of that too.
The paper has decreased in size and content in the last few years.
The {Post ranks 23rd in the nation according to it’s circulation. It’s circulation is 423,291 (Sunday edition).
I still like reading the paper, but like many others I seem to do it less and less as time goes on. I get most of my news on the internet and on TV.
I’ve been in retail business for 40 years in the St. Louis area. I remember a time when we would sell 125 Sunday papers and 20+ daily papers. Now we sell 2 or 3 papers a day and about 10 or 12 Sunday papers a week.
More about the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
sounds like the AJC here in Atlanta its got soo damn small but price is the same and its a liberal rag of a paper
What do you do Jonco?
Chicago has two newspapers and they’re both bankrupt. The same thing is happening all over the country. It’s hard to compete with the Web.
Houston used to have 2 but the Post kicked the bucket in ’95.
what a pity. Honestly I really dont care too much. Every newspaper in America could go under and it would make very little difference. I am sure they will seek a “bailout”.
hey why not everybody else wants a bailout
Oh I just checkd that link. A few of those are out of business now.
Why not just eliminate everything non-liberal like local Sports and Comics? Of course, in Atlanta, the comics have gotten so small that 22 strips fit on one page.
I don’t feel bad for newspapers that are going under. Times change. All print newspapers will be extinct eventually. Who likes getting ink all over their fingers anyway? I can get my news from my desktop computer, my laptop, my cellphone, my ipod… paper? pffffft
its not the web thats killing us (the paper industry) its we need advertising to make a bigger paper but no one want to advertise because of the economy so the papers smaller no one picks up the paper because theres no ads in it its a vicious cycle man ive been printing the paper here for 6 years i started 3 weeks out of highschool the web can not give the local news people forget that part
I hate to see the PD go. I recently (2004) gave them an entry door with glass that was on their original building. Mom’s Uncle (a STL cabbie) had somehow came up with it. Parents used as coffee table for years. that glass door was rebuilt and is now the entry door to the News conference room at their present location.
If the PD goes, would like to have it back.
tom
Our Sunday paper gets printed before 11pm on Saturday night. The delivery guy sometimes doesn’t get it to our door until 9am Sunday. By that time the “news” (very little actual news, mostly ‘feature’ and ‘lifestyle’ crap) is nearly 12 hours old and I already heard it on the 11pm news and all over radio & tv Sunday morn. No sports scores from games Sat night. On the internet I can get news from around the globe instantly…any country, any city in the world. Sports results right from the team websites. Weather from any meteo office on the planet (Tornado warnings don’t work in a newspaper!)
Old technology…The world moved on while newspapers stared at their navels, pushed their agenda, and congratulated themselves for being so smart. They lost the game years ago when they went from reporting the news to manipulating the news.
I stopped home delivery a couple of years ago, then I recieved a deal in the mail for $7.50 a month, daily and Sunday. So I am bach on the rag again.
When I went to college in northeastern MO we used to get this rag. The only people who will miss it will be the nuts who write in every year bitching about daylight savings time.
Richard, I dig Kirksville, my daughter graduated there.
In my hometown, we have a daily paper that is AUD$2 – around $1.45 American – that consists of around 5 pages. Five pages as in that I turn the page five times and I’m done.