Comments on: London Times Goes Strictly Tabloid http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/london_times_goes_strictly_tabloid/ Online Journal of Politics and Foreign Affairs Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:37:08 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: dw http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/london_times_goes_strictly_tabloid/comment-page-1/#comment-26223 dw Mon, 01 Nov 2004 23:59:31 +0000 /?p=7861#comment-26223 Yup, you're right. Mea culpa. October 15 circulation figures for broadsheets: The Daily Telegraph – 900,702 The Times – 660,906 Financial Times – 437,717 The Guardian – 376,314 I don't consider the FT as the same thing as the Times or the Telegraph, much as I don't consider the WSJ the same as the NYT. The FT and the WSJ have a strong bent towards covering business news, where the Times and the NYT are more "papers of record" (while the Sun and the News of the World are "papers of cleavage.") Yup, you're right. Mea culpa. October 15 circulation figures for broadsheets:

The Daily Telegraph – 900,702
The Times – 660,906
Financial Times – 437,717
The Guardian – 376,314

I don't consider the FT as the same thing as the Times or the Telegraph, much as I don't consider the WSJ the same as the NYT. The FT and the WSJ have a strong bent towards covering business news, where the Times and the NYT are more "papers of record" (while the Sun and the News of the World are "papers of cleavage.")

]]> By: kenny http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/london_times_goes_strictly_tabloid/comment-page-1/#comment-26213 kenny Mon, 01 Nov 2004 22:49:48 +0000 /?p=7861#comment-26213 "The Times is doing quite well. Before the switch they were the highest circulation broadsheet (with the Guardian second and the Tory-graph third)." Uh, the telegraph has been the largest selling broadsheet for decades. It's circulation is still around 50% higher than that of the times and about 2.5 times that of the Guardian. You've forgotten the FT as well "The Times is doing quite well. Before the switch they were the highest circulation broadsheet (with the Guardian second and the Tory-graph third)."

Uh, the telegraph has been the largest selling broadsheet for decades. It's circulation is still around 50% higher than that of the times and about 2.5 times that of the Guardian.

You've forgotten the FT as well

]]> By: dw http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/london_times_goes_strictly_tabloid/comment-page-1/#comment-26183 dw Mon, 01 Nov 2004 20:23:16 +0000 /?p=7861#comment-26183 The Times is doing quite well. Before the switch they were the highest circulation broadsheet (with the Guardian second and the Tory-graph third). the Independent went to tabloid earlier this year and saw a significant jump in sales. Tabloid makes more sense in Britain since they don't have home delivery like we do here in the States. People typically buy the paper on the way to public transport. There are now only two national broadsheets left -- the Guardian and the Telegraph. Both of them, though, appeal to broadsheet readers: Leftist intellectuals (for the Guardian) and right-wing/rich older people (for the Tory-graph). What the Union did was entirely a death-throes action. To my recollection, there's only one tabloid paper in the entire West -- the Rocky Mountain News. I'm probably wrong, though. I seem to recall one of the LA papers is as well. The Times is doing quite well. Before the switch they were the highest circulation broadsheet (with the Guardian second and the Tory-graph third). the Independent went to tabloid earlier this year and saw a significant jump in sales.

Tabloid makes more sense in Britain since they don't have home delivery like we do here in the States. People typically buy the paper on the way to public transport. There are now only two national broadsheets left -- the Guardian and the Telegraph. Both of them, though, appeal to broadsheet readers: Leftist intellectuals (for the Guardian) and right-wing/rich older people (for the Tory-graph).

What the Union did was entirely a death-throes action. To my recollection, there's only one tabloid paper in the entire West -- the Rocky Mountain News. I'm probably wrong, though. I seem to recall one of the LA papers is as well.

]]> By: McGehee http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/london_times_goes_strictly_tabloid/comment-page-1/#comment-26159 McGehee Mon, 01 Nov 2004 17:26:57 +0000 /?p=7861#comment-26159 A long-established and respected newspaper switching from broadsheet to tabloid causes me flashbacks to when <i>The Sacramento Union</i> went to tabloid in the late 1980s or early 1990s. Before long the <i>Union</i> cut back to, I believe, three-times-a-week publication. What had been the oldest continuously publishing daily in the West, a newspaper that had counted Mark Twain among its contributors, closed its doors for good not long afterward, leaving Sacramento a one-newspaper town for the first time since John Sutter was in residence at his fort. I hope this is a totally dissimilar circumstance. A long-established and respected newspaper switching from broadsheet to tabloid causes me flashbacks to when The Sacramento Union went to tabloid in the late 1980s or early 1990s. Before long the Union cut back to, I believe, three-times-a-week publication.

What had been the oldest continuously publishing daily in the West, a newspaper that had counted Mark Twain among its contributors, closed its doors for good not long afterward, leaving Sacramento a one-newspaper town for the first time since John Sutter was in residence at his fort.

I hope this is a totally dissimilar circumstance.

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