As newspapers are shutting down left and right, the popular east coast newspapers are looking to either expand or merge with local newspapers. Both Wall Street Journal and New York Times have decided that it’s high time they look west and acquire new territory.
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In the last month, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal have each launched Bay Area editions, hoping to fill the news (and, naturally, the advertising) vacuum opened up by the San Francisco Chronicle, a paper that lost 25.8 percent of its readers this year according the Audit Bureau of Circulation
Original Source: Go West, Old Media
It is a good news that the newspaper industry is picking up. Their lost is also a lost for the journalists loyal to the newspaper industry while most of them are now writing online.