In the digital age, a rare fight for print readers

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News curator James Karst, background left, director of print Terry Baquet, center, and production systems manager Stephen Barrouquere, bottom left, work amongst hanging prototypes of the New Orleans Times-Picayune's upcoming three-day-a-week newspaper at the paper's offices in New Orleans, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. As The Times-Picayune scales back its print edition to three days a week, the Baton Rouge newspaper is starting its own daily edition to try to fill the void. The move by The Advocate sets up an old-fashioned newspaper competition, even as more and more people get their news online and from cellphones. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

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Complementary introductory copies of the Baton Rouge (La.) Advocate's new New Orleans edition are seen in front of copies of the New Orleans Times-Picayune at Lakeside News in the New Orleans suburb of Metairie, La., Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. As The Times-Picayune in New Orleans scales back its print edition to three days a week, the Baton Rouge newspaper is starting its own daily edition to try to fill the void. The move by The Advocate sets up an old-fashioned newspaper competition, even as more and more people get their news online and from cellphones.(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

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A customer walks out with a free introductory copy of the Baton Rouge Advocate's new New Orleans edition at Lakeside News in the New Orleans suburb of Metairie, La., Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. As The Times-Picayune in New Orleans scales back its print edition to three days a week, the Baton Rouge newspaper is starting its own daily edition to try to fill the void. The move by The Advocate sets up an old-fashioned newspaper competition, even as more and more people get their news online and from cellphones.(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS — As The Times-Picayune in New Orleans scales back its print edition to three days a week, a newspaper in Baton Rouge is starting its own daily edition to try to fill the void. The move by The Advocate sets up an old-fashioned newspaper competition, even as more and more people get their news online and from cellphones. The Advocate announced it would start a New Orleans-focused print edition in The Times-Picayune’s backyard after the newspaper announced in June it was laying off 200 employees. The Times-Picayune was one of the nation’s oldest …