The New York Times - USA (2020-08-06)

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Danbury 84/ 67 0 79/ 65 PC 72/ 64 T

Islip 86/ 70 0 81/ 69 PC 76/ 67 T

Newark 88/ 71 0 82/ 68 PC 80/ 68 T

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Albuquerque 92/ 68 0 92/ 68 PC 91/ 68 PC

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Austin 100/ 72 0 99/ 72 S 97/ 74 PC

Baltimore 87/ 69 0 81/ 70 T 84/ 70 T

Baton Rouge 92/ 71 0 93/ 73 S 93/ 74 PC

Billings 91/ 62 0 93/ 62 T 88/ 56 PC

Birmingham 88/ 71 0 90/ 71 PC 92/ 71 S

Boise 99/ 66 0 92/ 54 S 86/ 54 S

Boston 89/ 67 0 82/ 66 PC 73/ 66 Sh

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Burlington 81/ 58 0.01 79/ 58 PC 81/ 62 PC

Casper 88/ 52 0 93/ 56 PC 93/ 53 S

Cedar Rapids 75/ 58 0 78/ 59 PC 82/ 65 PC

Champaign 75/ 55 0 76/ 56 PC 80/ 60 PC

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Charlotte 89/ 71 0 89/ 71 T 89/ 70 T

Chattanooga 89/ 72 0.05 89/ 71 PC 93/ 72 PC

Chicago 79/ 62 0 80/ 62 PC 83/ 64 S

Cincinnati 77/ 59 0 80/ 60 PC 83/ 62 PC

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Columbia, S.C. 91/ 70 0.05 90/ 70 T 91/ 71 T

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Concord, N.H. 87/ 56 0 82/ 56 S 79/ 59 PC

Dallas-Ft. Worth 93/ 76 0.19 98/ 78 PC 97/ 79 PC

Dayton 76/ 57 0 78/ 60 PC 82/ 61 PC

Denver 90/ 62 0 93/ 63 C 95/ 65 PC

Des Moines 76/ 64 0 80/ 67 PC 84/ 72 C

Detroit 75/ 59 0 78/ 61 S 81/ 61 PC

El Paso 103/ 80 0 101/ 78 PC 100/ 76 PC

Eugene 85/ 56 0 77/ 49 C 82/ 53 S

Fairbanks 72/ 53 0 72/ 50 PC 70/ 50 C

Fargo 78/ 60 0.04 81/ 68 PC 87/ 67 PC

Fort Myers 89/ 76 0.08 90/ 75 T 91/ 75 T

Fresno 93/ 61 0 90/ 65 S 95/ 67 S

Gainesville, Fla. 92/ 73 0 89/ 73 T 89/ 72 T

Grand Rapids 74/ 54 0 78/ 57 PC 81/ 60 S

Greensboro 87/ 70 0 84/ 69 T 86/ 68 T

Greenville, S.C. 88/ 67 0 87/ 66 T 88/ 66 T

Harrisburg 86/ 67 0 82/ 69 T 82/ 68 T

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Houston 96/ 77 0 96/ 77 PC 93/ 75 S

Indianapolis 75/ 59 0 77/ 59 S 82/ 62 S

Jackson 90/ 67 0 92/ 70 S 95/ 74 S

Jacksonville 92/ 74 0 90/ 74 T 90/ 74 T

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Kansas City 78/ 64 0 80/ 69 PC 83/ 74 T

Key West 91/ 84 0.16 90/ 83 T 89/ 82 Sh

Knoxville 86/ 69 0 85/ 68 T 89/ 68 T

Lansing 75/ 54 0 77/ 56 PC 80/ 59 PC

Las Vegas 104/ 80 0 101/ 76 S 102/ 76 S

Lexington 80/ 59 0 82/ 60 PC 86/ 60 PC

Little Rock 85/ 64 0 87/ 69 S 87/ 72 C

Los Angeles 79/ 63 0 77/ 60 PC 78/ 61 PC

Louisville 81/ 63 0 83/ 63 PC 86/ 64 PC

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Milwaukee 76/ 58 0 77/ 60 PC 79/ 67 S

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Monterey, Calif. 69/ 61 0 69/ 59 PC 68/ 57 PC

Nashville 86/ 66 0 88/ 66 PC 90/ 68 PC

New Orleans 95/ 78 0 95/ 76 S 92/ 77 S

Norfolk 91/ 74 0 87/ 73 T 89/ 74 T

Oklahoma City 83/ 70 0.32 90/ 74 PC 93/ 78 PC

Omaha 79/ 64 0 84/ 68 PC 85/ 73 PC

Orlando 91/ 75 0 91/ 74 T 91/ 73 T

Philadelphia 87/ 69 0.03 82/ 70 T 83/ 71 T

Phoenix 110/ 82 0 108/ 83 S 110/ 84 S

Pittsburgh 77/ 57 0 79/ 61 PC 79/ 61 T

Portland, Me. 87/ 62 0 82/ 60 S 78/ 65 PC

Portland, Ore. 84/ 62 0 74/ 56 R 79/ 58 PC

Providence 89/ 66 0 85/ 65 PC 77/ 67 T

Raleigh 89/ 71 0 86/ 71 T 88/ 70 T

Reno 92/ 56 0 90/ 57 S 91/ 61 S

Richmond 88/ 72 0 84/ 68 T 88/ 69 T

Rochester 75/ 54 0 76/ 59 PC 76/ 60 PC

Sacramento 80/ 58 0 87/ 60 S 90/ 62 S

Salt Lake City 100/ 75 0 98/ 72 S 93/ 68 S

San Antonio 101/ 74 0 99/ 74 S 97/ 76 S

San Diego 72/ 63 0 71/ 60 PC 73/ 62 PC

San Francisco 68/ 57 0 71/ 57 PC 72/ 55 PC

San Jose 72/ 61 0 77/ 58 PC 80/ 59 PC

San Juan 88/ 78 0.06 90/ 79 PC 90/ 80 T

Savannah 92/ 75 0.04 91/ 76 T 92/ 76 T

Seattle 82/ 61 0 69/ 57 R 77/ 57 PC

Shreveport 89/ 72 0.20 93/ 72 PC 94/ 75 PC

Sioux Falls 77/ 61 0 85/ 67 S 86/ 68 PC

South Bend 76/ 56 0 78/ 57 PC 81/ 60 S

Spokane 93/ 63 0 79/ 50 PC 75/ 53 S

St. Louis 78/ 61 0 81/ 63 S 85/ 68 PC

St. Thomas 88/ 80 0.01 89/ 80 S 89/ 82 T

Syracuse 77/ 58 0.07 79/ 60 PC 76/ 64 Sh

Tampa 93/ 79 0.05 91/ 78 T 92/ 78 T

Toledo 77/ 57 0 78/ 60 S 82/ 59 PC

Tucson 105/ 77 0 103/ 76 S 105/ 78 S

Tulsa 84/ 67 0 86/ 73 T 93/ 77 PC

Virginia Beach 87/ 74 0.04 84/ 74 T 86/ 72 T

Waco 100/ 75 0 100/ 75 PC 98/ 74 S

Washington 86/ 73 0 82/ 72 T 85/ 73 T

West Palm Beach 89/ 78 0.21 90/ 78 T 89/ 77 T

Wichita 84/ 69 0.05 86/ 73 PC 96/ 76 PC

Wilkes-Barre 83/ 60 0 80/ 66 PC 77/ 65 C

Wilmington, Del. 85/ 67 0 80/ 68 T 80/ 68 T

Abidjan 82/ 72 0 82/ 73 PC 81/ 73 C

Algiers 90/ 68 0 88/ 61 S 90/ 63 S

Cairo 93/ 76 0 98/ 75 PC 102/ 76 PC

Cape Town 59/ 45 0.02 61/ 40 PC 66/ 43 S

Casablanca 84/ 68 0 86/ 71 S 84/ 72 PC

Dakar 90/ 80 0 87/ 80 Sh 86/ 80 C

Johannesburg 68/ 46 0 67/ 40 S 57/ 38 PC

Nairobi 74/ 55 0 77/ 53 S 78/ 54 PC

Tunis 88/ 70 0 88/ 70 S 91/ 72 S

Almaty 95/ 64 0 97/ 68 PC 95/ 67 PC

Auckland 63/ 41 0.02 62/ 52 C 59/ 49 R

Baghdad 108/ 86 0 113/ 86 PC 116/ 86 PC

Bali 83/ 74 0.02 83/ 77 PC 83/ 75 PC

Bangkok 90/ 77 0.12 90/ 78 T 90/ 79 Sh

Beijing 88/ 76 0.11 91/ 72 C 91/ 71 PC

Damascus 100/ 70 0 101/ 68 PC 102/ 66 PC

Dhaka 94/ 82 0.36 88/ 80 T 92/ 81 T

Hanoi 87/ 79 0.95 86/ 79 T 90/ 79 T

Hong Kong 88/ 81 1.15 91/ 81 T 91/ 82 T

Islamabad 101/ 81 0.10 102/ 78 S 93/ 81 PC

Jakarta 90/ 77 0 92/ 76 T 93/ 77 PC

Jerusalem 84/ 68 0 84/ 67 S 87/ 70 S

Karachi 97/ 86 0 102/ 83 C 94/ 82 W

Kolkata 86/ 81 0.43 90/ 81 T 93/ 82 T

Kuala Lumpur 90/ 79 0 91/ 77 T 92/ 77 T

Lahore 101/ 84 0 99/ 83 C 94/ 81 C

Manila 91/ 79 0.05 89/ 79 T 88/ 79 C

Melbourne 48/ 39 0.42 55/ 38 Sh 54/ 51 Sh

Mumbai 84/ 75 2.66 84/ 81 R 87/ 80 R

New Delhi 93/ 83 0.10 95/ 81 T 93/ 80 T

Riyadh 109/ 82 0 108/ 83 PC 108/ 85 PC

Seoul 88/ 77 1.53 82/ 73 R 78/ 72 R

Shanghai 91/ 77 0.21 93/ 82 T 92/ 83 T

Singapore 88/ 80 0.02 89/ 81 C 89/ 79 PC

Sydney 63/ 42 0 60/ 47 PC 60/ 52 R

Taipei City 93/ 78 0.19 96/ 80 PC 96/ 80 T

Tehran 93/ 72 0 93/ 70 PC 93/ 70 PC

Tel Aviv 88/ 78 0 88/ 76 S 90/ 80 S

Tokyo 91/ 76 0 88/ 78 PC 90/ 79 W

Vladivostok 78/ 67 0.07 71/ 67 R 76/ 63 PC

Amsterdam 81/ 59 0 83/ 63 S 89/ 65 S

Athens 91/ 75 0 90/ 73 S 87/ 72 T

Barcelona 82/ 70 0 84/ 73 S 86/ 74 S

Belgrade 78/ 64 0.85 84/ 67 PC 88/ 66 T

Berlin 82/ 48 0 84/ 62 PC 89/ 67 PC

Brussels 84/ 55 0 89/ 65 PC 93/ 68 S

Budapest 77/ 63 0.06 86/ 67 PC 90/ 68 PC

Copenhagen 70/ 54 0 75/ 62 PC 75/ 62 PC

Dublin 68/ 63 0.13 70/ 58 PC 73/ 52 PC

Edinburgh 66/ 57 0.29 71/ 56 PC 72/ 51 PC

Frankfurt 82/ 52 0 88/ 63 PC 94/ 68 PC

Geneva 75/ 57 0 82/ 60 S 86/ 63 S

Helsinki 72/ 54 0 68/ 55 PC 76/ 57 PC

Istanbul 84/ 73 0 86/ 76 S 88/ 76 S

Kiev 86/ 59 0 87/ 63 PC 85/ 62 S

Lisbon 90/ 64 0 90/ 66 S 87/ 65 S

London 77/ 61 0 83/ 61 PC 94/ 67 S

Madrid 97/ 66 0 101/ 72 S 102/ 71 S

Moscow 79/ 55 0 77/ 56 Sh 74/ 56 PC

Nice 82/ 72 0 83/ 74 PC 85/ 76 S

Oslo 59/ 52 1.21 71/ 56 PC 73/ 58 PC

Paris 88/ 55 0 92/ 66 S 97/ 70 S

Prague 75/ 50 0 79/ 59 PC 86/ 61 PC

Rome 82/ 64 0 86/ 68 PC 87/ 69 S

St. Petersburg 69/ 62 0.35 70/ 59 PC 73/ 60 C

Stockholm 66/ 48 0 73/ 57 PC 81/ 58 PC

Vienna 66/ 59 0.16 80/ 62 T 88/ 64 PC

Warsaw 75/ 54 0 80/ 62 T 86/ 63 PC

Acapulco 88/ 78 0.31 88/ 79 T 87/ 78 T

Bermuda 85/ 79 0 86/ 79 S 86/ 79 PC

Calgary 80/ 54 0 81/ 52 C 69/ 49 R

Edmonton 80/ 52 0 84/ 48 C 65/ 42 Sh

Guadalajara 82/ 62 0.15 82/ 61 T 83/ 59 T

Havana 88/ 73 0.12 88/ 74 PC 89/ 74 PC

Kingston 90/ 82 0.04 91/ 80 T 91/ 79 T

Martinique 90/ 74 0 90/ 79 T 89/ 79 T

Mexico City 78/ 56 0.12 76/ 56 PC 76/ 56 T

Monterrey 92/ 75 0 92/ 73 S 92/ 72 T

Montreal 74/ 66 0.45 77/ 60 S 81/ 63 PC

Nassau 89/ 78 0.08 88/ 77 PC 88/ 76 S

Panama City 86/ 75 0.04 86/ 75 T 88/ 76 T

Quebec City 73/ 66 0.88 73/ 54 PC 77/ 56 S

Santo Domingo 90/ 75 0.01 89/ 75 T 90/ 76 T

Toronto 74/ 58 0.04 77/ 62 S 79/ 61 S

Vancouver 70/ 57 0 70/ 57 R 69/ 58 C

Winnipeg 78/ 56 0 83/ 63 PC 87/ 58 PC

Bogota 64/ 52 0.03 66/ 50 T 64/ 49 T

Buenos Aires 68/ 61 0 60/ 48 C 55/ 52 C

Caracas 90/ 76 0.76 87/ 75 T 88/ 76 T

Lima 65/ 58 0 64/ 58 S 64/ 58 S

Quito 66/ 43 0 72/ 48 PC 71/ 49 PC

Recife 82/ 73 0.01 82/ 74 R 82/ 72 PC

Rio de Janeiro 75/ 66 0 76/ 64 S 77/ 63 S

Santiago 61/ 44 0 65/ 39 S 68/ 42 PC

Sao Paulo 73/ 55 0 74/ 52 PC 76/ 53 S

Dry air should be enough to prevent
thunderstorms or greatly limit the number
of storms in New England. High pressure
will slide east from the Great Lakes.
Farther south, the air will remain moist
enough for thunderstorms from the Mid-
Atlantic to the southern Atlantic and east-
ern Gulf Coast areas. Some storms in the
Mid-Atlantic may be heavy and gusty
enough to cause flash flooding and knock
over trees, especially in spots hit hard with
heavy rain by Isaias days earlier.
Farther west, the air will still remain

rather mild for August over much of the

Midwest, with a good deal of sunshine.

Although, as this air retreats east, a few

storms will develop over parts of the cen-

tral and southern Plains. A few storms

from western South Dakota to northeast-

ern New Mexico may be severe, with large

hail and high winds later in the day.

Much of the area from the Rockies to

the Pacific Coast will be dry and sunny. It

will be hot in the interior Southwest. A

storm moving across western Canada

might bring a few thunderstorms to west-

ern Montana later during the day.

Much of the tropical Atlantic and Pacific

will be quiet.

FOCUS: SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THREAT

ON FRIDAY Thunderstorms are expected

across portions of the northern Plains on

Friday afternoon and night. The storms

may turn severe as they shift to the East.

The primary risk will be large hail and

damaging winds. The strongest storms are

expected across the Dakotas.

Over a three-month period domi-
nated by the coronavirus pan-
demic and a slowdown in adver-
tising, The New York Times Com-
pany for the first time reported
quarterly revenue that owed more
to digital products than to the
print newspaper.
As much of its staff worked re-
motely, The Times brought in
$185.5 million in revenue for dig-
ital subscriptions and ads during
the second quarter of 2020, the
company announced on Wednes-
day. The number for print revenue
was $175.4 million.
The company added 669,000
net new digital subscribers, mak-
ing the second quarter its biggest
ever for subscription growth. The
Times has 6.5 million total sub-
scriptions, a figure that includes
5.7 million digital-only subscrip-
tions, putting it on a course to
achieve its stated goal of 10 million
subscriptions by 2025.
In a statement, Mark Thomp-
son, the chief executive, called the
company’s shift from print reve-
nue to digital “a key milestone in

the transformation of The New

York Times.”

Attracting subscribers willing

to pay for online content is a high-

wire act that practically every

company in the news business is

trying to pull off. The Times

started charging for digital con-

tent in 2011, when asking news

consumers to pay for what they

read on their screens was seen as

a risky gambit.

“We’ve proven that it’s possible

to create a virtuous circle,” Mr.

Thompson said in a statement, “in

which wholehearted investment

in high-quality journalism drives

deep audience engagement,

which in turn drives revenue

growth and further investment

capacity.”

Last month, The Times an-

nounced that Mr. Thompson, for-

merly the director general of the

British Broadcasting Corporation,

would leave the company after

eight years. He will be succeeded

as chief executive and president

on Sept. 8 by Meredith Kopit

Levien, the chief operating officer,

who has been an executive at the

company since 2013.

Adjusted operating profit for

the second quarter was $52.1 mil-

lion, a 6.2 percent decline from

$55.6 million in the same time last

year.

The pandemic posed challenges

to the news industry in April, May

and June as businesses across

many industries cut back on mar-

keting, leading to sharp declines

in advertising spending and tens

of thousands of furloughs, pay

cuts and layoffs at media organi-

zations.

At the Times Company, ad reve-

nue fell 32 percent in the digital

part of the business and 55 per-

cent in print compared with the

equivalent period last year. Total

ad revenue fell to $67.8 million,

from $120.8 million, a 44 percent

drop. That figure fell short of the

50 percent to 55 percent decline

forecast by Times executives in

May.

The Times laid off 68 employees

in June, most of them in advertis-

ing, including all those who

worked at its marketing agency

Fake Love, which was closed. The

newsroom and opinion depart-

ments were not affected by the

cuts.

The company’s headquarters in

Midtown Manhattan were all but

shut down in March because of the

pandemic, and Times employees

have been advised that they will

not be required to return to the of-

fice before January.

The quarter’s surge in digital

subscriptions was probably relat-

ed to strong interest in news of the

pandemic, the widespread pro-

tests against racism and police vi-

olence that started in May and the

2020 presidential campaign.

Ms. Levien said in an earnings

call Wednesday morning that the

Times averaged 130 million digital

readers per month during the

quarter, according to Comscore, a

slight falling off from a tremen-

dous March surge but still a 32

percent rise compared with the

second quarter of 2019.

“We don’t expect the excep-

tional peaks in audience we saw in

the early months of the coro-

navirus story to last forever, but

we also know we’re about to enter

the crucial last months of a presi-

dential election,” she said.

The company signed up 493,000

net new subscriptions to what it

calls its “core news product” dur-

ing the three-month period. The

cooking and crossword apps,

along with other digital offerings,

brought in an additional 176,000

subscriptions.

Citing the pandemic, the com-

pany offered a bleak outlook for

advertising revenue in the third

quarter, projecting an overall de-

cline of 35 to 40 percent. For dig-

ital ad revenue, the Times said it

expected a 20 percent decline

over last year’s third quarter. That

would be an improvement over

the second quarter’s slide.

Digital circulation revenue rose

29.6 percent during the quarter, to

$146 million, compared with the

equivalent period last year. At the

same time, print circulation reve-

nue fell 6.7 percent, to $147.2 mil-

lion. The company attributed that

drop to a falloff in newsstand

sales; home-delivery print circu-

lation revenue remained flat.

Total circulation revenue rose

8.4 percent. The company said it

expected total subscription reve-

nue to rise 10 percent and digital-

only circulation revenue to have a

30 percent increase in the next

quarter. Total adjusted operating

costs fell nearly 8 percent during

the second quarter, to $351.6 mil-

lion, with sales and marketing

costs declining 36 percent.

A category the company calls

“media expenses” — indicating

how much it spent to promote sub-

scriptions — was more than

halved during the quarter, falling

to $16.5 million from $33.9 million.

Even while taking a hit because of

other companies’ curbs on how

much they laid out for marketing,

the Times Company did the same

thing itself.

Digital Earns More Than Print for First Time at New York Times Co.

By MARC TRACY

Edmund Lee contributed reporting.

Advertising shrinks,

but web subscription

growth is the best ever

for a quarter.

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