This is almost more dispiriting than "we messed up."
Trump said this at 6:30. The @nytimes really can't get news that breaks at 6:30 p.m. onto Page 1 of the late city edition?
At my first newspaper job in the late 1990s, the final edition didn't hit the press until 1:30 a.m.
As of 2015, the Times' *first* city edition closed at 10:45 p.m., followed by 12:00 a.m. and 12:30 a.m. closes.
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Print deadlines have gotten waaaaay earlier at a lot of papers, though the primary reason is that centralization has meant local papers are now sometimes printed a state or two away. (Like Gannett's Ohio papers now printed in Indianapolis.)
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While that could have an impact on the Times' national edition, it shouldn't impact the city edition, which is printed at a Times-owned plant.
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I don't doubt that COVID has shifted things earlier — but man, a president saying, at 6:30 p.m., that he might not leave office if he loses sure feels like the kind of thing you push deadline for to get it on Page 1.
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