[Uncledave]

Wow, that’s interesting — have any other major papers done this? (Or is it simply they’re switching to Reuters, which I didn’t see noted in the article).

Why should a local paper report waste column inches and money buying wire pulp anyway, which is available in a million other places.\

[cinnathepoet]

It may be available, but maybe not with rights to republish. Trouble is, by the time the old media gets the news collected, edited, printed and delivered, people have already read it in the new media.

[gridlock]

Why should a local paper report waste column inches and money buying wire pulp anyway, which is available in a million other places.

Yep. The notion that somebody is going to rely on the dead-tree media for all their news is an obsolete concept. If I want the latest news from the Mideast, I am not going to bother looking in The Daily News. I will buy that paper for their unique content, like their original reporting or Mike Lupica or their columnists. Warmed over filler pieces can be found any of a thousand places, for free, on the web. Why would I pay money for that?