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If we have to face a future without newspapers, can you imagine how we might find innovative ways to maintain access to the authoritative reporting by respected journalists at every level of society?

Will Richardson posted about his reactions to a future without newspapers, Mourning Old Media, Mourning Old Media Teachers.

I had heard through NPR of the change at the Christian Science Monitor but hadn’t heard about the changes in the other newspapers. The New York Times article, Mourning Old Media’s Decline, David Carr, is a real wake up call to everyone who grew up in a world where we took newspapers for granted.

Clearly, the sky is falling. The question now is how many people will be left to cover it. ~ David Carr

The paradox of all these announcements is that newspapers and magazines do not have an audience problem — newspaper Web sites are a vital source of news, and growing — but they do have a consumer problem. ~ David Carr

October 2008

1 – number of movie reviewers left on staff of The Los Angeles Times
1 – number of dollars TV Guide was sold for
2 – number of days the Christian Science Monitor will publish each week in the future
5 – number of days the Christian Science Monitor will not publish each week in the future
40 – percent of people The Star-Ledger of Newark, the 15th-largest paper in the country, will cut from it’s editorial staff
50 – percent of people The Los Angeles Times has left in the newsroom after 7 years of reductions
90 – percent of revenue the newspaper industry still derives from the print product
600 – number of people Time Inc., the Olympian home of Time magazine, Fortune, People and Sports Illustrated, announced that it was cutting
3,000 – number of people Gannett, the largest newspaper publisher in the country, plans to lay off 10 percent of its work force

~ Information from Mourning Old Media’s Decline, David Carr