The New York Times says good-bye to the local opinion pages starting this week. The move to eliminate the City section, New Jersey, Westchester, Connecticut, and Long Island pages follows last year’s decision to reduce the number of stories specific to each region and packaging material that can run in all the suburban sections.
The Times’ editorial-page editor, Andrew Rosenthal, told The New York Observer it took six months to make the move, considered “the right thing to do from a business perspective.”