\nThe Strib’s Sunday feature section, Source, will die sometime this summer. The Home & Garden section will no longer be stand-alone \u2014\u00a0it becomes the Wednesday Source section. And \u2014\u00a0in a move pregnant with meaning for 2005-redesign-haters \u2014\u00a0the Source name is being dumped for the old moniker, Variety.
\nAll told, the paper will lose seven full pages of stories each week. That’s a solid ad-free page of copy a day, though the loss may be concentrated on Wednesday and to a lesser degree, on Sunday. The stakes are especially high for the latter edition; it’s by far the week’s biggest moneymaker, but it’s been shrinking steadily and circulation is down 7 percent in the past year.<\/p>\n
So why is Graydon Royce happy? The Strib’s longtime theater critic is also co-chair of the newsroom’s union, so he’s not one given to ebullience about management decisions. The l-word I expected to hear from his lips was “loathe,” not “like.”<\/p>\n
But Royce says there are several positive aspects to the proposal. Sunday Source is a vestige of the redesign’s Signature section, which showcased long-form weekend pieces but quickly flopped. It survived as Sunday Source \u2014\u00a0which basically wrapped classifieds and ad circulars. “It was a small section, advertisers were frustrated and readers couldn’t find it,” Royce notes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
It was especially hard to find when you haven’t subscribed for years – but we digress.<\/p>\n
Cuts the Strib should <\/em>make – now there’s a topic…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The possibly-bankrupt Strib is pondering cuts. In addition to staff, though, says the MNPost’s David Brauer, this time they’re cutting actual Strib: The Strib’s Sunday feature section, Source, will die sometime this summer. The Home & Garden section will no longer be stand-alone \u2014\u00a0it becomes the Wednesday Source section. And \u2014\u00a0in a move pregnant with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}