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Star Ledger shrinks paper again

by: Jason Springer

Tue Feb 03, 2009 at 12:15:00 PM EST



Your paper will be a little bit thinner on Mondays:
Just two weeks after raising its newstand price, The Star-Ledger announced in today's editions that it eliminated its New Jersey news and Today features sections on Mondays.

The Ledger said shrinking the newspaper to two sections on Monday was designed to "streamline" its production process and "provide what we believe is a more efficient start-of-the-week newspaper with a full sports report."

In its front-page announcement, the newspaper said some material in the Monday Today section had been eliminated, such as the bridge column and syndicated columnists Dear Abby and Dr. Donohue, which will run Tuesdays through Sunday.

There clearly is no good time to either raise prices or reduce content, but the back to back caught my eye. So far, the Ledger has combined it's county sections with its New Jersey section, eliminated its Outlook and Spotlight sections on Sundays, it's Savor section on Wednesdays and Home & Garden section on Thursdays. It could be worse as the Jersey Journal is trying to figure out ways to make it through April.  With the cuts in coverage, letters to the editor, weeklies and the web will become that much more important to get news out and help shape narratives.  
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It was hard enough to get county coverage before the last change.
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