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Top 10 endangered newspapers? Perhaps.

We didn’t think much of the article when we stumbled across it yesterday. But in our ongoing efforts to be your visual journalism blog of record, we’ll note it here.

Time magazine cited a report from someone called 24/7 Wall St. that listed the top ten major endangered newspapers in the U.S.

Time included commentary for each. We’ll just toss the list at you:

  1. Philadelphia Daily News
  2. Minneapolis Star Tribune
  3. Miami Herald
  4. Detroit News
  5. Boston Globe
  6. San Francisco Chronicle
  7. Chicago Sun-Times
  8. New York Daily News
  9. Fort Worth Star-Telegram
  10. Cleveland Plain Dealer

Any surprises there? The builders of this list appear to have cited papers that have either declared bankruptcy or are in cities hard-hit by the recession. But come on, does anyone really expect the NYT company to shut down the Boston Globe?

Find the list — and all the commentary — here.

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3 Responses to “Top 10 endangered newspapers? Perhaps.”

  1. Dean Lockwood Says:
    March 10th, 2009 at 10:54 am

    The Boston Globe was the one “bullshit” moment I had. If anything, the NYT might sell them — and to some at the Globe, they’d be thrilled.

  2. Mark Friesen Says:
    March 10th, 2009 at 10:15 pm

    Cleveland seems like BS, too. Cleveland is not Newark, and he never mentions that Advance is privately held and has no debt, which is one of the big problems the other companies are having. Whole thing seemed a bit slipshod to me.

  3. JohnKroll Says:
    March 11th, 2009 at 11:08 pm

    Indeed, The Plain Dealer was never contacted about this beforehand, so our response is here.

 

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