While it might be interesting to understand why the circulations of Boston papers are headed in the opposite direction from that of the Philadelphia Inquirer (up 2.3% to 338,000), the broader, more important question is why the decline in newspaper readership is steeper in Boston than elsewhere? Other cities and regions have Metro papers or the equivalents of BostonNow. Other cities and regions are internet savvy.
With circulation so slowed, how close are the Globe and the Telegram-Gazette to life support? And what does this mean for the New York Times? Time to sell?
