No-Newspaper Cities by 2010?

Does the idea of a no-newspaper town scare you? According to the Times‘s Richard Perez-Pena this might be where we are heading. And shortly! (We snagged this impressive graphic from the HuffPo media page, by the way).

In 2009 and 2010, all the two-newspaper markets will become one-newspaper markets, and you will start to see one-newspaper markets become no-newspaper markets.

But does it matter? News reporting and newspapers are two different things. Of course, Perez-Pena points to the problem of which we are all painfully (and endlessly) aware, namely: “No one yet has unlocked the puzzle of supporting a large newsroom purely on digital revenue, a fact that may presage an era of news organizations that are smaller, weaker and less able to fulfill their traditional function as the nation’s watchdog.”

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