Mediagazer: New York Times Struggles to Replace Print Ads With Digital Sales (Edmund Lee/Bloomberg)

2:40 PM ET, October 29, 2013

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Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:

New York Times Struggles to Replace Print Ads With Digital Sales — The New York Times Co.'s advertising department is struggling to replace its once-lucrative print ads with digital sales, as Google Inc. (GOOG) and Facebook Inc. gobble up increasingly large chunks of marketers' budgets.

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