Not-So-Big News

Idaho's shrinking newspapers look at a brave new (online) world

http://www.boiseweekly.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A309076

Postal Service Says Killing Small Periodicals is a "Win-Win"

http://www.motherjones.com/washington_dispatch/2007/11/postal-service-says-killing-small-periodicals-is-a-win-win.html

What's Wrong With Sports Illustrated

And how to fix it.
By Josh Levin:

http://www.slate.com/id/2177143/pagenum/all/#page_start

The Death of Newspapers

http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/Opinion/Content?oid=97000

"Most of these cuts--although not necessarily all of them--are typical of the dumb-ass greed of today's newspaper companies. It happens all the time: A newspaper has an off quarter or year, profits-wise (they're still profitable, mind you, just not as profitable as shareholders or managers want); management responds by cutting staff and resources to keep profits high; the paper's quality invariably suffers without the resources it had before; readers/advertisers notice this and stop reading or buying ads; a newspaper has another off quarter or year, profits-wise; repeat cycle."

Chronicle of the Newspaper Death Foretold

http://www.slate.com/id/2154678/

"Bogart and the project rat out the usual guilty parties for falling circulation—radio and television. But they also cite city-to-suburb migration (and the distribution difficulties caused by metro sprawl), growing transience that prevents people from establishing roots that in turn nurture the newspaper habit, and changes in work and commuting patterns, as well as the flaccid editorial product in many markets."

Participatory journalism and the inevitable death of newspapers

http://www.kuam.com/news/12624.aspx

"In my opinion, most newspapers will fall victim to their own ignorance/arrogance and failure to realize they're too far behind the times until it's too late. They'll be dead before they know it - a sad but not unexpected casualty in the name of industrial progress."

The Slow Death of Newspapers

For some reason, publishers assume people will want to buy more newspapers if they have less news in them and are less useful to people.

http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/33954/

By Molly Ivins, AlterNet. Posted March 23, 2006.

"I don't so much mind that newspapers are dying -- it's watching them commit suicide that pisses me off."