More Newspapers Drop Print Editions -- And Now Online Must Carry the Day

A recent Associated Press-compiled list of papers that have dropped at least one print day per week in the last year spans some 100 publications in 32 states, with a dozen in Ohio alone. The cutbacks range from a Monday or Saturday — which often offered little newshole anyway — to multiple days and, in some cases, even Sunday. But one less print edition means less work for the newsroom, right? Hardly. Rather, newsrooms now find themselves having to strike a balance by coming up with attractive content for the Web on non-print publishing days, while also moving some ink-on-paper content around to different days in order to keep subscribers and older readers happy.