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From the transcript of Times-Picayune editor
Jim Amoss' recent
chat with "Fresh Air" host
Terry Gross:
GROSS: How do you stay in business now? The circulation for the actual paper part of the newspaper must be down 'cause so few people are living in New Orleans. A lot of businesses that would advertise aren't in New Orleans now, either. So how are you getting enough money to actually stay in publication?Mr. AMOSS: Well, New Orleans has actually -- the metro area of New Orleans has rebounded more strongly than I think some national reports might suggest. Already in the city of New Orleans alone, we have, by some estimates, as many as 140,000, 150,000 inhabitants. And in the suburban parishes surrounding New Orleans, we're almost back to 90 percent. So -- and the newspaper's heft and the newspaper's degree of advertising reflects that. So I think we and the community have come back far more strongly and more vitally than anyone, including ourselves, would have believed in those dark days of September.
