new newspaper

[J Cullen]

As the editor of a twice-monthly journal, I can testify that the main 
problem in trying to put out a daily (or a weekly) is circulation. It 
takes a week to 10 days or more for a periodical to make it across 
the country by the US mail. You can express ship copies to regional 
mail processing centers around the country, as the newsweeklies and 
national dailies like the Wall Street Journal and the Christian 
Science Monitor do, but that is expensive. War Times could try to put 
out a daily edition on the Internet at a relatively modest cost, 
however.

-- Jim Cullen

    The Progressive Populist


>At 11:04 PM -0800 3/29/02, Ian Murray posted:
>>War Times, produced in San Francisco, will make its first bi-weekly 
>>appearance on April 12. It will
>>be published in English and Spanish and will be distributed 
>>throughout the US.
>>
>>Its editors say it is a response to a demand for more information 
>>about what is happening in
>>Afghanistan and the possibility of conflict elsewhere.
>>
>>The venture is supported by a number of academics, including Noam 
>>Chomsky, labour organisations and
>>anti-war groups.
>>
>>Its managing editor, Bob Wing, said the response to the idea had 
>>been extraordinary. "We originally
>>planned to print only 7,500 copies of the pilot," he said, "but the 
>>demand was so great that we
>>printed and distributed 100,000."
>
>That's encouraging, but what comes out bi-weekly is not so much a 
>newspaper as a journal.  How much would it cost to put out _War 
>Times_ daily?
>--
>Yoshie
>
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