Philadelphia Daily News To Be Edition Of Inquirer

PHILADELPHIA — The company that owns both the Philadelphia Daily News and The Philadelphia Inquirer will start publishing the tabloid Daily News as an edition of the broadsheet Inquirer starting March 30.

The newspapers announced the change Monday.

Mark Frisby, publisher of the Daily News, says the combination will allow the papers to save on wire service fees and "take greater advantage of combined advertising revenue." Company officials say the change won't affect staffing, content or management.

Each paper will continue to report to circulation auditors under the Inquirer heading, but the circulation will be combined for auditing purposes.

The company, Philadelphia Newspapers Inc., filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last week.

Comments

[max]

09:09 PM on 03/03/2009

it's better than closing the doors.......go Phillies

[AnthonyVolpe]

12:11 PM on 03/03/2009

Does this mean Brian Tierney's cutting his salary in half too?

[curiousasheck]

10:47 AM on 03/03/2009

They think most Americans are clueless idiots who enjoy being fed pabulum/lowest-common-denominator mindless sitcom, gossip, and survival slop.

[deeppeace]

05:13 PM on 03/03/2009

Gee, they always say nice things about you.

[larry278]

10:43 AM on 03/03/2009

They can get & do the creative thing in Philly, sort of. Merging a 'loid & a broadsheet in a de facto sense prior to both of them folding is a, sort of, new twist. The WAPO will have a Philly, metro, sheet going by the time the Philly papers fold. The WAPO, Philly ed may be printed in Philly by using the remainig presses of the folded, kind of-sort of, merged, then folded Philly papers.
The WAPO could, at 1st, use the Philly presses to print its Metro NY ed when the NYT & NYC's 'loids fold. The WAPO will have access to the Star-Ledger's presses if Mr Murdoch doesn't let the WAPO use the presses of the either the NYT or 1 of the folded NY 'loids. The New England ed of the WAPO can use the presses of the Christian Science Monitor when the Boston & other New England papers fold.
There could be a phony circulation beteen the WAPO's regional eds & the WSJ incident to the epidemic of deaths of daily papers in the New England-Mid Atlantic region.
There isn't space to guess on which paper will be the SouthEasts surviving paper when Atlanta's Prostitution/Jerimand, SC's State & Charlotte Disturberr fold. That combo could become a new newspaper of record.

[DuPageDem]

10:30 AM on 03/03/2009

Yeah, that's gonna work -- about as well as if "ABC Nightly News" were an edition of "The Wonderful World of Disney." Uh, wait a minute . . .

[chroma601]

04:24 PM on 03/03/2009

Funny, I just got my wife to switch to NBC News as she was tired of hearing about The Jonas Brothers!