Newspaper Bids Farewell to Albuquerque

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - The Albuquerque Tribune said goodbye Saturday to the city it had served for nearly nine decade as it closed in what observers described as the latest newspaper to succumb to the digital age.

Eighteen editors, reporters and photographers hunkered down in front of computer screens to put out the last edition. The final front-page headline read simply, ``Goodnight, Albuquerque.''

The Tribune's circulation had dropped from 42,000 in 1988 to about 9,600; some blamed the advent of an era in which readers increasingly shun ink and paper to consume news online. Its main competitor was the much larger Albuquerque Journal.

The paper's owner, The E.W. Scripps Company, put The Tribune up for sale in August and said it would shut the paper down if a buyer wasn't found.


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