Re: Major newspapers folding?

["MaryJoan Crowley" <maryjoan.crowley@uniroma1.it>]

For a thorough discourse based analysis of the transition from 
"dead tree"newspapers to digital information see the article by 
Eric Alterman in the New Yorker, Out of Print.  The death and 
life of the American newspaper. March 31, 2008. 
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/03/31/080331fa_fact_alterman?currentPage=all

Mary Joan Crowley
Caspur-Ciber
Rome, Italy

----- Original Message -----
From: "B.G. Sloan" <bgsloan2@yahoo.com>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 1:32 AM
Subject: Major newspapers folding?

> There's been a rash of closings (or threatened closings) of some
> notable newspapers recently:
>
> Rocky Mountain News (in business 150 years)
> http://tinyurl.com/c5h55g
>
> San Francisco Chronicle (in business 144 years)
> http://tinyurl.com/df9dvb
>
> Seattle Post-Intelligencer (in business 146 years)
> http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/395463_newspapersale10.html
>
> Makes one wonder what other changes are in store for the
> newspaper industry, the publishing industry, and the information
> industry in general.
>
> Bernie Sloan
> Sora Associates
> Bloomington, IN