Why Newspapers Are Dying

The Rogue Columnist writes about What's Really Wrong with Newspapers and concludes that it has less to do with new media and a changing economy than it does with centralization, lack of competition and an inherently bad business model that was ripe to be pushed aside.

Having to witness both of my local newspapers slash their staffing in the past few years has been painful -- almost like watching friends die.

The only good thing to come out of it is that many of these former newsmen and women are going on to work for nonprofits and new media where their skills are badly needed. I'll be writing more about the Newpaper Diaspora in future posts.