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San Diego Union-Tribune Cancels Weekly Book Review Section

The San Diego Union-Tribune has cancelled its stand-alone book review section. What does this mean for the quality and amount of book coverage for San Diego readers? And is this just part of a natio

San Diego Union-Tribune Cancels Weekly Book Review Section

Tom Fudge:  People who take the Sunday San Diego Union-Tribune can say goodbye to the book review section. That section will no longer be part of the Sunday paper, starting this weekend. The move to stop publishing the book section falls in line with what a lot of other papers are doing. In fact, the UT had been in a very select company of papers that still published separate book sections. That small club included prestigious papers like the New York Times , the Washington Post , and the San Francisco Chronicle .

Guests

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  • Chris Lavin , senior editor for special sections at the San Diego Union-Tribune .
  • John Freeman , president of the National Book Critics Circle.