But the past several years have revealed that by doing well in one’s backyard, one can support a staff large enough to cover it ambitiously.The Los Angeles Times has more than doubled digital subscriptions in the past two years, to 450,000. The Boston Globe, which says it makes enough digital revenue to support its newsroom, increased its digital subscribers in the last two and a half years to 226,000 from 100,000, according to figures provided by the newspaper, which John W. Henry bought from The New York Times Company in 2013. The Philadelphia Inquirer’s digital-only subscriptions grew 28 percent last year, to north of 60,000.“We don’t need to go …
