Should The New York Times Go Online-Only?

We didn’t think it was a good idea before today, but a study from a university in England confirms our belief.

Over on Webnewser, there’s a story about the finances of Taloussanomat, a Finnish paper that went online-only in December, 2007. The results: “While the move decreased costs by 50 percent, revenue fell more than 75 percent and online readership dropped 22 percent.”

More importantly — especially for the Times, which prides itself on the quality of its coverage — the study done by researchers at London’s City University found that “the quality of content did suffer,” because of drastic cuts to the newsroom.

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