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The same thing is happening to the newspaper industry as the candle making industry. Electricity and Light bulb came along and ZAP! The printed newspaper will not totally vanish, but when you can look at every single newspaper in the world on your I Tablet, whats the point?

For the newspapers who are still stubbornly persisting to hang on to print and not gradually move their advertisers to online, they will painfully die an agonizing death in the near future.

The good thing about being a reporter who gets let go is these people can always write their garbage on blogs and then let's see how far they get with their tripe! ;-)

"We're in the midst of a reorganization right now to bring the print and web staffs together for the first time, make the company digital first, and make all of our content platform-agnostic," he said. "We're always looking for ways to get better."

I didn't see this at first glance, but they are recognizing what's going on and starting to make the change.

"Platform-agnostic", that's a strange way to put it?

“For the newspapers who are still stubbornly persisting to hang on to print and not gradually move their advertisers to online, they will painfully die an agonizing death in the near future.”

It’s too late for the big newspaper publishing empires. They’re going to die an agonizing death whether they go digital or not. All the good online real estate has already been grabbed by ebay, craisglist and google 13 years ago. Why on earth would an online user or advertiser go to some local dipshite website to read ads, find goods, or find sevices when they can do their one-stop shopping at ebay, craigslist, google, etc.?

Not to mention online revenues per ad are infinitesimal compared to print ads because: 1) online ad space is essentially infinite, driving cost per ad close to zero, and two 2) newspapers only achived high ad rates to start with because they had a local market monopoly on information exchange which has been broken by the Internet, which has an inherent readership scope approaching infinity.