Comments on: Predicting how many papers to print http://www.niemanlab.org/2008/12/how-to-predict-how-many-papers-to-print/ A collaborative effort to figure out the future of journalism. A project of Harvard University. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:39:00 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: robert ivan http://www.niemanlab.org/2008/12/how-to-predict-how-many-papers-to-print/comment-page-1/#comment-519 robert ivan Sun, 07 Dec 2008 18:43:43 +0000 http://www.niemanlab.org/?p=603#comment-519 Using this method, how did the NYT not anticipate the need for November 5, 2008 papers? Their DMA is 17million plus, how many extra did they print? half a million or less? They could have printed one edition all night and into the day they could have printed 2.4million papers in 10 hours (60k imp/hr x 4 presses x 10hours running). The could have taken presses off line as demand waned during the day. Heck, they could have just kept one press running and after the normal run was off been producing 60k issues per hour. (maybe this is what they did). I remember walking through NY Penn station in the afternoon and there being NO Newspapers EXCEPT NY Daily News. They had stacks and stacks. They anticipated. hmmmm.. i'm going to follow up and see if i can get an interview with NY Daily News Circulation... Thanks! Using this method, how did the NYT not anticipate the need for November 5, 2008 papers? Their DMA is 17million plus, how many extra did they print? half a million or less?

They could have printed one edition all night and into the day they could have printed 2.4million papers in 10 hours (60k imp/hr x 4 presses x 10hours running). The could have taken presses off line as demand waned during the day.

Heck, they could have just kept one press running and after the normal run was off been producing 60k issues per hour. (maybe this is what they did).

I remember walking through NY Penn station in the afternoon and there being NO Newspapers EXCEPT NY Daily News. They had stacks and stacks. They anticipated. hmmmm.. i’m going to follow up and see if i can get an interview with NY Daily News Circulation…

Thanks!

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