Ain't There No More: The Times- Picayune Downsizes
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Abstract
The Announcement Ricky Mathews, incoming president of NOLA Media Group, a subsidiary of Advance Publications Inc., announced on May 24, 2012, that 175-year-old Orleans Times-Picayune [T-P] no longer publish a printed paper each day, beginning sometime in fall. The focus shift to online news gathering 24/7 instead (McGill, 2012; New digitally focused company, 2012). Did Ricky Mathews fully understand marketing implications of this decision? In other words, did he know how this change resonate with readers, considered highly brand loyal to T-P? The changes coming in fall were necessitated by revolutionary upheaval in industry, Matthews said. These changes made it essential for news-gathering operation to evolve and become digitally focused, (New digitally focused company, 2012). Mathews also noted that the transition be difficult and that move will result in a reduction in size of workforce (New digitally focused company, 2012). The be delivered to homes and sold in stores on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays only (New digitally focused company, 2012). An alternative weekly in city, Gambit, reported that paper's employees were in shock (Mirkinson, 2012). News of impending changes appeared in The York Times day before (Carr, 2012) and was explosive for employees and anyone who loved Orleans, its celebrated newspaper, or who followed long-struggling (Theim, 2013, p. 92). T-P Editor Jim Amoss stated, We continue our 175-year commitment to covering communities we serve (New digitally focused company, 2012). The Poynter Institute, a noted journalism policy organization, said move would make Orleans largest city in country without a daily printed newspaper (Descant, 2012). Edward Atorino, a media industry analyst, said other major metro papers are watching T-P's experiment very closely (McGill, 2012). Atorino expected to see more movement away from traditional seven-day paper as print advertising dollars continued to decline, from approximately $23 billion in 2008 to $19 billion in 2011 (McGill, 2012). The decline continued in 2012 to $18.9 billion (Pew Research Center, 201). Market penetration for T-P (print only) had fallen from 68% in 2010 to 64% in 2012 (Pew Research Center, 2014). [For more information about industry, see Appendix A.] History Established as The Picayune in [January] 1837, paper's initial price was one picayune, a Spanish coin equivalent to about 6 cents (Readex, 2013). It covered many historical events including Mexican War, catastrophic floods, Civil War, Reconstruction and city's growth (Readex, 2013). Journalistic innovations, under first female publisher of a major paper, Eliza Jane Poitevent, included society pages and specific pages for children (Readex, 2013). It merged with its competitor, The Times-Democrat, on April 5, 1914 to become The Times-Picayune (Readex, 2013; Karst, 2014). Thorough coverage of major events continued in 20th century, including both World Wars, terrible hurricanes, Governor Huey Long's career, levee construction and election of city's first African-American mayor in 1978 (Readex, 2013). Samuel Newhouse, Sr., owner of Advance Publications, purchased The Times-Picayune and afternoon paper in Orleans, The States-Item, in 1962. The papers were merged in 1980 and were published as The Times-Picayune/The States-Item. The name was shortened to The Times-Picayune in 1986 (Wikipedia, 2013). The gained national attention and was later awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2006 for reporting on Hurricane Katrina (August 29, 2005 and months afterwards). Staffers camped out in middle of building and kept posting updates on paper's website, NOLA. …
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".