[Chickensoup]

look at weekly papers. ours are growing

[Steve_Seattle]

Seattle has two major weeklies - The Weekly and The Stranger - that have lasted at least 15 or 20 years despite the fact that they are distributed for free. They are heavily oriented towards entertainment and left-wing social and political commentary.

They are NOT the equivalent of the old dailies, but they are apparently doing reasonably well. I assume their staff is a small fraction of what the old dailies used to have.