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Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Newspaper Death Watch

Posted By Cathy Resmer on Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 10:40 AM

Longtime journo Buzz Merritt wrote Knightfall: Knight Ridder and How the Erosion of Newspaper Journalism is Putting Democracy at Risk. Here he is talking with Bob Garfield of NPR's On the Media on Friday:

Now, the issue for me is not so much can we save newspapers? The issueis can we save newspaper journalism and get it migrated onto theInternet and these other platforms before it's totally eroded by theeconomic pressures?

Exactly.

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Seven Days’ deputy publisher and co-owner Cathy Resmer is a writer, editor and advocate for local journalism. She works in the paper’s Burlington office and lives vicariously through the reporters while raising money to pay them. Cathy started at Seven Days as a freelance writer in 2001 and still has the Rolodex...