Caribbean L 6 ife, JANUARY 10-16, 2020
amNewYork and
Metro join forces
for daily giant
Copies of amNewYork and Metro newspapers.
By The AMNEWYORK Metro Staff
The two free weekly tabloids serving
New York City are now one.
Schneps Media, publisher of
amNewYork, acquired the assets of Metro
New York and Metro Philadelphia, including
the popular daily newspapers, websites
and digital media businesses serving New
York City and Philadelphia.
As a result, Schneps Media has merged
amNewYork and Metro New York to form
amNewYork Metro. With 175,000 copies
sent to press for Monday’s issues, its circulation
is now more than twice than that
of any other major daily circulated in the
five boroughs.
In addition, Schneps adds over 350,000
in weekly circulation with its community
newspapers serving Brooklyn, Queens,
Manhattan and the Bronx. Schneps Media
also covers the Long Island and Westchester
markets.
Schneps’ combined digital reach will
now grow to about 3.5 million unique
visitors and 5.5 million page views per
month with over 300,000 email newsletter
subscribers and 500,000 social media
followers.
Schneps plans to retain amNY.com as
the digital brand for New York and will
soon be launching amNY TV providing
episodes of content across multiple digital
platforms. The first series will be The
World’s Fare featuring the best authentic
international restaurants and their chefs
in New York City.
Philadelphia is a new market for
Schneps Media with METRO having the
largest circulation in Philadelphia County.
Schneps Media executive Cliff Luster
has been named Group Publisher for the
New York and Philadelphia markets with
former METRO executives Ed Abrams
and Susan Pfeiffer acting as Publishers
and Associate Publisher for New York
City and Philadelphia respectively. Robert
Pozarycki, amNewYork’s current Editor in
Chief, will serve in the same role for the
combined New York City media.
METRO largely consolidated their Philadelphia
newsroom into New York and
Schneps Media plans to focus on hiring
editorial staff that will be based in the
local Philadelphia market for that office.
“I’m very happy that the readers and
communities of New York and Philadelphia
will get their news from publishers
that have been devoted to local news
coverage for over 35 years,” said Abrams.
“I’m excited to be joining and leading the
amNewYork METRO division with a company
I competed with and also respected
for many years.”
“This is an exciting next step for our
entire organization offering a unique
opportunity to strengthen our position in
the daily newspaper market and increase
our readership to over 2.5 million readers
in print each week and many more
online,” said Schneps Media CEO Joshua
Schneps.
“Our expansion to the Philadelphia
market is something we look forward to.
We will be bringing our business model
to this historic City,” said Schneps Media
Founder and President Victoria Schneps.
METRO Philadelphia is poised to grow tremendously
and we look forward to working
with the local community.”
Schneps Media is now the publisher
and producer of two leading daily newspapers,
33 award-winning community
newspapers, 28 magazines and specialty
publications, 20 websites and more than
50 annual events throughout New York
City, Long Island, Westchester and now
Philadelphia.
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