NYT Moves National Deadline Up By 30 Minutes To Save A "Significant" Amount Of Money

We’re just posting this because we think it’s fascinating how tiny changes can result in apparently huge cost savings, and nobody had to lose their job for it.

Yesterday New York Times managing editor John Geddes sent out a memo, posted by Nieman Journalism Lab’s Zach Seward to Times staff announcing that the paper was moving its first national edition deadline to 9:00pm from 9:30 pm.

“We’re doing this to save money,” Geddes wrote. “By closing 30 minutes earlier we’ll be able to include papers printed in some of our national sites in shipments made by other publishers to distant markets.

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