At a time when most U.S. cities boast only a single large-circulation daily newspaper, New York City has four. While the broadsheet New York Times (circ. 1 million) has a comfortable lead in the scramble for local advertising dollars, three of the country's seven remaining big-time tabloids -- the New York Post (circ. 713,786), New York Daily News (1.3 million) and Newsday (633,119) -- are fighting a bruising battle for the rest. If old-style newspaper competition is dying nationwide, New York just might be the site of the tabloids' last stand.
This week the heaviest round yet in the newspaper war...