# Are there any major newspapers that still publish two editions? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 14, 2016, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-major-newspapers-that-still-publish-two-editions/752161 "2016-04-14T02:50:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bomberswarm2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c37758/32.png) [@bomberswarm2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bomberswarm2)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2016, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-major-newspapers-that-still-publish-two-editions/752161/1 "2016-04-14T02:50:26Z")
I know that many of these papers stopped years ago, but are there any that still do it? I mean in regular use, I know that for big news stories, (in Australia 9/11 is the most recent one I’m certain of) newspapers still print multiple editions, but are there any remaining that do it regularly? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2016, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-major-newspapers-that-still-publish-two-editions/752161/2 "2016-04-14T14:11:59Z")
I don’t know the answer, but wanted to thank the OP for the flash of nostalgia. I had completely forgotten about the days when you either got the morning paper or the afternoon/evening paper. Seems like ages ago… ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2016, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-major-newspapers-that-still-publish-two-editions/752161/3 "2016-04-14T14:24:35Z")
I know USA TODAY had three or four editions as of the last time I worked for them, but that’s getting to be 16 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2016, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-major-newspapers-that-still-publish-two-editions/752161/4 "2016-04-14T15:16:10Z")
Not full editions, but the _St. Louis Post-Dispatch_ among others stops the press run at some point (it used to be around midnight) for a “lift” so it can drop in late-breaking news and sports stories. The final story about last night’s overtime hockey game was in my home-delivered paper this morning, but not in the issue dropped off at the local convenience store. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Bredin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2016, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-major-newspapers-that-still-publish-two-editions/752161/5 "2016-04-14T15:24:12Z")
Not two printed editions, but the _Chicago Tribune_ issues an online afternoon edition (a discrete document with paging, not just the list of stories on their webpage) in addition to the morning printed/online edition. ---
**Author:** ![lance\_strongarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@lance\_strongarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lance_strongarm)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2016, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-major-newspapers-that-still-publish-two-editions/752161/6 "2016-04-14T15:25:06Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > Not full editions, but the _St. Louis Post-Dispatch_ among others stops the press run at some point (it used to be around midnight) for a “lift” so it can drop in late-breaking news and sports stories. The final story about last night’s overtime hockey game was in my home-delivered paper this morning, but not in the issue dropped off at the local convenience store. Yes, many do that. I know the Washington Post, for instance, publishes one edition to go out to the far suburbs and beyond, and then a later one for everyone else. It also publishes a tabloid that it distributes for free at subway stations with mostly stale stories from a few days ago and some crap pulled off the internet to try to capture the phone-reading crowd. P.S. Full details: > [@](#): > > The paper’s three editions start with RE, for “regional.” The newsroom typesets its last story for that edition at 9:30 p.m. The presses are running by 9:45, and nine minutes after that, the first copies are complete. The RE comprises about 40,000 copies, which go to outlying cities such as New York and Richmond. Subsequent editions are the SU, for “suburban” (it closes at 11:30), and M2, for “metro,” the final edition, which closes around 12:45 a.m., later if there is a game on the West Coast. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/holey-newspaper-whats-with-those-little-holes-at-the-bottom-of-the-post/2015/12/05/1fb593dc-9aca-11e5-94f0-9eeaff906ef3\_story.html](https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/holey-newspaper-whats-with-those-little-holes-at-the-bottom-of-the-post/2015/12/05/1fb593dc-9aca-11e5-94f0-9eeaff906ef3_story.html) ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2016, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-major-newspapers-that-still-publish-two-editions/752161/7 "2016-04-14T15:28:43Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > Not full editions, but the _St. Louis Post-Dispatch_ among others stops the press run at some point (it used to be around midnight) for a “lift” so it can drop in late-breaking news and sports stories. The final story about last night’s overtime hockey game was in my home-delivered paper this morning, but not in the issue dropped off at the local convenience store. Even in the old days, most of the paper stayed the same and only those “late-breaking news and sports stories” changed. The New York Times has a local edition and a national edition. Those can have some wide variation, and that national edition is often missing large chunks of local stuff entirely. But the bulk of the two editions is the same, even if the paging differs.