Media Daily Paper to Become Free Weekly
posted by on February 11 at 8:57 AM
Actually it’s going to become a free bi-weekly.
Beginning April 30, the news and opinion edition of The Capital Times will be published on Wednesdays. It will be distributed with home-delivered Wisconsin State Journal subscriptions throughout and just beyond Dane County and offered free throughout the Madison area in newspaper racks. It will offer in-depth news and public affairs stories as well as the newspaper’s highly regarded opinion and commentary content, Frink said.The Capital Times will also produce a weekly arts, entertainment and culture section that will be distributed on Thursdays with the Wisconsin State Journal and offered free in newspaper racks in the Madison area. It will replace the current Rhythm publication, which is co-produced with the State Journal and appears in both newspapers.
The 90 year-old Capitol Times in Madison, Wisconsin, is the liberal paper; the older Wisconsin State Journal is the conservative paper. And the papers are operated under a JOA, like the PI and Seattle Times, meaning they have joint business operations but independent editorial departments. A sign of things to come in Seattle?
Maybe the Onion is going daily in Madison, its hometown. There isn't much of a market for actual news in Madison...
a sign of things to come for all dailies.
Wasn't Madison kind of small to have two dailies? Way less than half the size of Seattle -- with a fifth of the metro area.
It was bound to happen. I doubt the Cap Times is going anywhere -- as I recall, their JOA has no out clause, and they split profits 50-50 with the State Journal, but their circulation was about 1/10th of the State Journal. It sounds like a business decision.
I'm sad to hear this. Milwaukee's Journal and Sentinel combined a few years back, and now this.
Fnarf, yes, Madison's a small market relatively, but two papers worked pretty well there because it's the state capital and has a large university, not to mention that both papers served as the daily paper for many of the small communities all the way west to the Mississippi. It's a big newspaper area, as opposed to getting news via TV and online, though I suspect the online part is what precipitated the Cap Times' decline.
P.S. The Onion staff actually isn't in Madison any more. They moved to NYC back in 2001.
With only one paper, who will compete to be the first to alert us to impending ice quakes (http://www.news.wisc.edu/14680), the 100 car pile-up in a wall of fog, thousands stranded on I90 with the National Guard on snowmobiles, break-throughs in creating stem cells from a source other than embryos? Madison's a happening place...
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