[Kip Currier: Timely New York Times article, given my Letter to the Editor that I emailed to The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on September 1, 2018.]
"Practically every morning begins with a thud on the driveways of the roughly 50,000 homes here. The newspaper has arrived.
That
newspaper, The Villages Daily Sun, which exhaustively covers this
rapidly growing retirement community in Central Florida, is in the midst
of a boom that few other papers can even imagine. According to the
Alliance for Audited Media, the Sun’s weekday circulation of 55,700 is
up 169 percent since 2003. Over the same time, weekday newspaper
circulation across the United States has dropped 43 percent. (The
Orlando Sentinel, the region’s largest newspaper, is down 53 percent.)...
Elsewhere around the country, the industry continues to cough and wheeze
its way from print to digital, with layoffs and closings in its wake.
Just this week, Pittsburgh became the largest city in the United States
without a daily print paper when the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette announced it was cutting its print distribution to five days a week, ending a nearly 100-year history of seven-day-a-week publication."
