The New York Times and The Washington Post were among those newspapers that produced extra copies Monday. A tweet from @NYTimesComm noted that an additional 165,000 copies of the Times had been printed: 125,000 issues -- 2.5 times the normal order -- were distributed in the New York market. An additional tweet from the company said 40,000 extra newsstand copies were available in Washington D.C., Boston, Albany, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago.
Meanwhile, the Post printed 35,000 extra copies of Monday's paper.
Even publications with smaller audiences churned out some extras to mark the occasion. In New Jersey, The Star-Ledger announced that an extra edition would be printed, along with its regular morning edition, which already features a front page dedicated to the story. And The Poughkeepsie Journal -- based in Poughkeepsie, New York -- also announced that an extra edition of Monday's paper would be available on newstands throughout the mid-Hudson Valley.
Many of these papers had to scrap their deadlines and adjust printing schedules when the news initially broke late Sunday night. The Washington Post didn't close its final edition until 2 a.m., as Melissa Bell points out on its website's BlogPost. And Eileen Murphy -- VP of corporate communications at The New York Times -- told MediaBistro it might have been the first time the Times actually stopped the presses since the Gulf War.
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