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Newspapers country wide in the US are folding fast. One aspect of this that got me typesetting is that city newspapers serve a legal function in printing public notices of all kinds. Is the web the de facto inheritor of this legal public obligation? What now? If not what now, what when? What who? Huh?

ABC News: Extra, Extra: Is It the End for Newspapers?

Originally Posted by Laura Marquez

Extra, Extra: Is It the End for Newspapers?
Newspapers Teeter on Financial Brink; Rocky Mountain News Prints Final Edition
The 144-year-old, Hearst-owned San Francisco paper has survived fire and earthquakes but may not survive in the current economic climate. It has had to cut a third of its newsroom in the past two years and is desperately seeking a financial savior.

"I don't think I'm safe, and I don't think anyone in that newsroom feels that they're safe," said C.W. Nevius, columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle.

Even the American Society of Newspaper Editors today announced it has canceled its 2009 convention, a first since World War II, concluding that "the challenges editors face at their newspapers demand their full attention." ...

Will The Seattle Post-Intelligencer Fold On Tuesday?

Originally Posted by Donald R. Winslow

SEATTLE, WA (March 9, 2009) – Will Tuesday be the last day that the 146-year-old Seattle Post-Intelligencer publishes a newspaper?

Most of the newsroom employees think that it's likely.

"Hearst has said there's no reason to keep publishing the newspaper when it's losing money, and tomorrow would be their first, earliest chance," a Seattle journalist told News Photographer magazine today. Tuesday is the 60-day deadline Hearst had set for a buyer for the paper to step forward, and there is no buyer at this point. When they made the announcement, Hearst said that if there was not buyer within 60 days then the printed paper would cease and the P-I would be published only online.

"They're going to do like Scripps did with the Rocky. When it's time, it's time, they'll just shut it down," the journalist said. "They'll just walk away." ...