Not mine. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has the best penetration of any daily newspaper in a city/region with a population of greater than 500,000. And, it’s a decent rag.
It’s thinned significantly, and they give away issues sometimes now. It was also one of the first to charge for online access, so it has that going for it. Luckily, we have a nice online upstart to take up the slack.
I heard that the Chicago Sun Times is nearly done. And I live in Wyoming, where we used to get Rocky Mountain News, and they just stopped their circulation a couple weeks ago.
I have to say, as much as I like the look and feel of picking up a newspaper to read, I think it is time to say good bye to a few of them. It just seems rather extraneous to have so many papers all over. Especially places that have two or more.
Also, what I find terribly egregious are these media lamentations about the “grey ladies” blah blah. If they did their jobs investigating the truths of certain matters instead of painting corporate and government whitewash, then we’d probably still be buying them. Of course, getting anthrax in the mail certainly influences behavior.
I’m kind of new in my city but the newspaper is very thin, not at all what I was used to with the SF Chronicle or Examiner. Where I work, they provide newspapers in the waiting lounge but don’t even bother with the local, they set out USA Today.
We are becoming a 1 newspaper town (Seattle Times). The other newspaper (Seattle PI) posted itself in it’s final edition, in the obituaries! So hilarious. It died at 141 years old. :)
Our paper, the San Diego Union-Tribune, was on the market for quite a while and sold recently. I don’t know much about the new owners, so I don’t know if they will be able to revive it- it had lost a lot of content over the past couple of years. maybe they will make it less conservative…I can always hope!