{"id":13819,"date":"2022-03-09T10:01:41","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T16:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=13819"},"modified":"2023-05-17T23:06:02","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T04:06:02","slug":"when-a-daily-isnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2022\/03\/when-a-daily-isnt\/","title":{"rendered":"When a daily isn’t"},"content":{"rendered":"

At any point in the previous century this would have been earth-shattering news: The Des Moines Register<\/em> is not going to print Saturday editions. <\/a>Its last physical Saturday paper was March 5.<\/p>\n

Given developments over the past two years in the journalism industry, I thought it was time to put together a chart on the state of things.<\/p>\n

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(Note\/disclaimer: Although I work for one of the publications [The Gazette] and am involved in another [SEIU], nothing here is proprietary. This blog is down to three a week, too.) <\/em><\/p>\n

When the Audit Bureau of Circulations became the Alliance for Audited Media<\/a> nearly a decade ago, there was a serious clamp-down on public distribution of circulation numbers. However, the Iowa Newspaper Association has an interactive map<\/a> covering every publication down to the smallest weekly, which is where I went to make the chart above. Necessarily, that means an omission of at least two papers, the Omaha World-Herald<\/em> and Sioux Falls Argus Leader,<\/em> that have substantial presence in Iowa. The latter is also cutting Saturdays<\/a>, but not all Gannett papers are; the reductions may be just from the set that, as of New Year’s Day 2022, printed seven days a week.<\/p>\n

The map from the INA link may look somewhat sparse in south-central Iowa. That’s because May 2020 saw two weeklies and a once-daily close up shop<\/a>. The Ottumwa Courier<\/em> doesn’t seem to report to the INA for whatever reason. If you’re wondering where the Newton Daily News<\/em> or Carroll Times Herald<\/em> are in the chart, they don’t qualify anymore.<\/p>\n

If you really want a shock, in conjunction with the numbers above, check out this list<\/a>\u00a0of Iowa newspapers’ circulation in fall 1999 on a website that’s frozen in time from shortly after the 2000 presidential election. Check out the whole website, really.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 4\/6: The Cherokee Chronicle-Times<\/em> is being reduced to twice a week, as part of a multi-newspaper ownership shuffle involving the Storm Lake Times<\/em> (story 1<\/a>, story 2<\/a>) and what could be called an angel investor (story 3<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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