Somebodyisfromhere.com's Housekeeping: The Newspaper Biz.

With the Rocky Mountain paper going out of business, a lot has been made about the trouble of the industry. Well that trouble no doubt exists. Still, nationally, there has been an effort to group in somebodyisfromherecom's favorite paper the Philadelphia Inquirer. Recently, as the national news would have you believe, both The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Daily News filed for bankruptcy. Which paints a devasting picture for the cities newspaper business. Except, they are the same company and thus filed for the same reason. The two papers are generally run differently with different staffs. They do not appear to be in any imediate danger of going under. Instead, it was just financial manuevering. Long term prospects...who knows?

Then comes this news. The company announced that the Daily News will be released as a "unique" edition of the Inquirer. The papers will still be released separately, but this enables them to save $500,000 on Associated Press fess as well as some advertising fees. It's a move that almost reaks of desperation if it didn't come off as so obvious it should have been done years ago. It looks like the industry has to get smarter and Somebodyisfromhere.com is glad his favorite newspapers are.

http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/20090303_Daily_News_will_become_edition_of_Inquirer.html