PAPER UNDERGOES INTERNAL REORGANIZATION.(Business)

Byline: Cailin Brown and Tim O'Brien Staff writers

For almost 100 years, this upstate New York city's hometown daily newspaper has been The Record.

But internal management problems and shifting market forces are causing change at the paper and raising questions about its future.

For one thing, the paper is part of a dying breed across the country - an afternoon newspaper. The industry survivors for the most part have been the morning dailies.

Additionally, The Record has become another notch in a nationwide trend of locally owned dailies that have been gobbled up by a national chain concerned more with a bottom line.

In recent weeks, news of the reorganization, retrenchment and cutbacks at The Record have been splashed onto the pages of other publications - generally bringing the news of the comings and goings at the paper to Troy residents even before their hometown newspaper makes the announcement.

The latest round of change in the last few weeks has forced Ingersoll Publications Co. of Princeton, N.J., to send some of its top corporate people to its Troy property to take control of the management.

The Troy paper has been in a state …