No good news for newspapers
The news seems ever bleaker for the struggling newspaper industry.
While Hearst hopes that going online-only will help the Seattle Post Intelligencer finally eke out a profit, former Rocky Mountain News staffers are planning to launch an online newspaper if they can get 50,000 paying subscribers by the 23rd of April.
Meanwhile, Tuscon Arizona’s oldest newspaper, the Tuscon Citizen, is shutting down after 138 years.
And in San Francisco, Chronicle workers voted for concessions that they hope will save their paper. The Chronicle will cut 150 jobs, reduce paid vacation time, sick leave, and maternity and paternity leave, expand the workweek from 37.5 hours to 40 and gain the right to subcontract work instead of using union labor.











