The Plain Dealer
Summary
The Plain Dealer is the major daily newspaper of Cleveland, Ohio. It has the largest circulation of any Ohio newspaper, and is a top 20 newspaper for circulation in the United States. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, for the six-month period ending on March 31, 2010, The Plain Dealer reported an average daily paid circulation of 267,888 and an average Sunday paid circulation of 362,394. As of May 2006, The Plain Dealer had more than 785,000 readers on weekdays and 1 million readers on Sunday. The Plain Dealer's media market, Greater Cleveland, is ranked #1 in the country for Sunday newspaper readership percentage (75.4% of total adults) and #2 in daily newspaper readership percentage (62.6% of total adults), second only to The New York Times in the weekday editions.The newspaper was established in 1842, less than 50 years after Moses Cleaveland landed on the banks of the Cuyahoga River in The Flats, and is currently owned by Advance Publications (Newhouse Newspapers).
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State of the News Media 2013 shows how industry is responding to ‘continued erosion’ of resources
Newspapers’ fortunes, admittedly from a rock-bottom base, have been looking up lately — Warren Buffett and others have bought papers, digital pay plans are boosting circulation revenue, and new lines of business like digital marketing services are taking root.
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Friend-me journalism
Columnist Connie Schultz posted a link for her 113,000 Facebook followers on Wednesday afternoon to an article that ran in the Plain Dealer about a local teachers' strike. Schultz wrote that she found the article to be "unacceptable," because it quoted a small group of parents and students protesting the striking teachers and not the striking teachers.
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Zinio's new library program with partner Recorded Books is moving out of beta phase as the number of library systems signing up quickly begins to grow
There has not been a week that goes by, it seems, that I do not stumble upon a new story in a local newspaper about its local library now offering digital magazines as part of its services. The new development is the result of an effort by digital newsstand company.
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At The Plain Dealer, a shrinking staff delivers some solid work
DETROIT, MI -- There will be many rich politics stories to follow in Ohio in 2013. But when the subject is the media that will be covering those political doings, there's one story that stands out--and it's about what will happen at The Plain Dealer, the venerable Cleveland newspaper whose campaign coverage was often admired by CJR.
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Layoffs at Star-Ledger, other Advance papers in N.J.
NJ. com Thirty-four employees of the (Newark, N. J. ) Star-Ledger, including 18 full- and part-timers in the newsroom, will be laid off Wednesday, the paper’s Ted Sherman and Kelly Heyboer report.
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60 Minutes takes a look at Newhouse's Times-Picayune and its reduced print run, ends its segment by repeating rumor concerning The Plain Dealer
The management team at Newhouse Newspapers must be breathing a sigh of relief this morning following last night's airing of a segment on 60 Minutes about their decision to cut back to just three days a week the print run of their New Orleans daily, The Times-Picayune.
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What the New Year will bring for local news
The (Harrisburg, Pa. ) Patriot-News went to a three-day-per-week print-publishing schedule yesterday. “More than 40 veteran journalists” will join new hires, David Wenner wrote … Read more.
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Retiring Ohio congressman hates Cleveland.com commenters
Cleveland. com U. S. Rep. Steve LaTourette decided not to run for re-election this year. One thing he won’t miss about his old job? Cleveland. com commenters, he tells Plain Dealer reporter Sabrina Eaton.
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8 things Cleveland can expect from The Plain Dealer’s 'press-ageddon'
(Editor's note: This post originally ran on Cleveland Scene. For background, here's a post from yesterday on Cleveland's newspaper crisis and the bigger one on the horizon. ) When former journalists and alumni of the New Orleans Times-Picayune heard the news about the imminent changes at The Plain Dealer, our hearts broke for Cleveland.
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In Cleveland, bracing for the next free-news fallout
Cleveland Scene magazine ran a fine, overlooked story on the ticking clock at the Cleveland Plain-Dealer, as journalists and readers alike await Advance Publications's next move in its remorseless campaign to make its regional newsrooms fit a free-news model. Vince Grzegorek talked to current and former staffers, executives and analysts, and delivers a chilling and very likely correct.
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