As Print Newspapers Decline, How Does Digital Fill the Void?

As Print Newspapers Decline, How Does Digital Fill the Void?.- By Steve Dennen - July 23, 2009.-

You can’t help but read in the news today – ironically -- about the challenges facing the newspaper industry. In the course of the past few months, both the Rocky Mountain News and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer have ceased print news operations, with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer moving exclusively to the digital publishing platform. Both the Chicago Sun Times and the Tribune have filed for bankruptcy. More recently, the New York Times, having been in continued negotiations with its Boston Globe writer’s union (the company’s largest employee union), has reached a tentative agreement on pay cuts that will allow the Boston Globe to at least start their way down the road toward profitability...