[Steve_Seattle]

My sister recently retired from the Seattle Times, a newspaper which I've grown to detest. In recent years they've had major staff reductions, pensions and benefits were significantly cut back, and the owner has been selling-off assets to keep the paper afloat.

Although I hate the paper, I tried to console my sister that "people will always need news, and they will always need local news."

But the local TV stations may assume that role, or perhaps the old daily newspapers will survive only as slimmed-down shadows of their former selves, employing 200 rather than 1,200, and operating mostly or completely as on-line entities.

[catnipman]

“But the local TV stations may assume that role”

Personally, I that’s exactly what’s going to happen.

[Chickensoup]

look at weekly papers. ours are growing