Printed PDs on their way out?

Is the Plain Dealer’s daily deliveries to your doorstep over?

That seems the thrust of a Cleveland Scene magazine article on the heels of publisher Terrance C.Z. Egger’s announcement that he will retire from the newspaper early next year.

Advance Publications, which owns the PD, has gone to 3-days-a-week delivery of its printed newspapers in sister newspapers in Michigan (Ann Arbor News), Alabama (several papers), Louisiana (New Orleans Times-Picayune), New York (Syracuse Post-Standard) and Pennsylvania (Harrisburg Patriot-News).

Managing editor Thom Fladung and editor Debra Simmons dodged the question when they announced Egger’s impending department at a hastily called newsroom meeting.

To read the entire Cleveland Scene story, click on http://www.clevescene.com/cleveland/the-publisher-bails/Content?oid=3053775

To reach an earlier BJ Alums article on Egger’s upcoming departure, click on http://bjretirees.blogspot.com/search?q=PD+publisher+to+retire