"Portland paper may stop the presses, but not for news" - NBC

"First Daily Newspaper In 40 Years Joins NC Press" - Raleigh Telegram

Here is one (Surry Messenger), and here is the other (The Mount Airy News).

"New York Times Ad Sales Fell 16% Last Month" - WSJ.com

"Monitoring the future of newspapers" - The Boston Globe

"Australia's Fairfax Media cuts 550 jobs" - AFP

"Study Shows Only 20% of Readers Believe the News. NewsCred Offers First News Website Focused on Credibility of...." - PR Web

"The How vs. Where of News Consumption" - Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ)

"Newspapers will not survive despite blind journalistic optimism - Greenslade" - guardian.co.uk

"Brian Wilson Pacts with Gannett for Web Release" - mediaweek.com

It sure takes newspapers a long time to start doing this sort of thing.....

"Death Of Print: 5 ways the newspapers botched the Web" - valleywag.com

"Nearly Half of Top 30 Newspaper Sites Decline in 'Time Spent'" - Editor & Publisher

In terms of an informed population, think about these numbers. An average person spent about 30 minutes TOTAL during these MONTHS on newspaper websites. Whether it is up a little, or down a little, the real concern ought to be over just how tiny an amount of time that is.

"New breed of 'net newsers' shape US media habits, says Pew report" - guardian.co.uk

"Where Newspapers Are Thriving" - buisnessweek.com