"Youth" Tabloids May Be Cannibalizing Dailies' Paid Circulation
By AAN Staff
october 22, 2003 04:39 pm
The Chicago Tribune weighs in on the youth-
paper movement and manages to move the ball
upfield, reporting that single-copy sales of
the Chicago Sun Times have declined amid the
titanic struggle between its own free daily, Red
Streak, and the Tribune's virtually-free
RedEye. The Stranger's Dan Savage
calls the new free dailies "like a cross between
Us magazine and AP wire."