"Youth" Tabloids May Be Cannibalizing Dailies' Paid Circulation

october 22, 2003  04:39 pm
"Youth" Tabloids May Be Cannibalizing Dailies' Paid Circulation
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."