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On the New Orleans radio show "Out to Lunch" Monday, Nola.com business manager David Francis said The Times-Picayune's print circulation has gone up since it cut print frequency. "I will tell you that we’ve been pleasantly pleased with what we’ve seen since Oct. 1. when we launched the three-day-a-week newspaper," he told host Peter Ricchiuti.

We’ve seen a significant growth on the online side ... But also from a circulation standpoint the passion you talked about for the paper, in the 175 years we’ve been producing it, has resulted in actually an increase in our circulation. So those who were concerned about what this may mean to the community in terms of the local content they were used to getting from the Times-Picayune have found themselves embracing us again. So when we issued our first publication after we went to the three-day cycle we saw people’s attitudes and behaviors change. To the point now that we’re very satisfied and we’ve exceeded our targets in terms of circulation.

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