Oregon Media Insiders

What if they stopped publishing a newspaper and nobody noticed? From reader Russell Shaw:

Death in the afternoon? Or better put, mid-morning?

Last week, I noticed that distribution of the Oregonian's mid-morning Street Final edition seemed to have halted. Noteworthy because Portland was one of the few U.S. cities that still had distribution of a daytime edition. Pretty sure Pittsburgh is the only one remaining, BTW.

I was curious about this, so I emailed O's public editor. He forwarded my note to O circ director, who sent me this, just yesterday a.m.:

Russell,

Yes, you are correct...the last Street Final edition was published Friday, February 8th. We ceased publishing the edition for the reasons you've cited. (high fuel costs to distribute)

We do publish two daily and Sunday editions for the metro area. One, with bigger headlines, for street sales and another for home delivery.

Thanks,

Kevin Denny
Circulation Director

P.S. The fact that so few folks noticed disappearance of Street Final is, by itself a testament to the perception that this edition- mostly a replate but a carryover from old Oregon Journal days- largely was killed because of increasing irrelevance.

I mean, some of you probably knew, but I didn't.