More on the death of newspapers

Just one paragraph from The State of the News Media 2009 (Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism):¹

America's newspapers got smaller in just about every way. We estimate that roughly 5,000 full-time newsroom jobs were cut, or about 10%, in 2008. By the end of 2009, the newsrooms of American daily newspapers may employ somewhere between 20% and 25% fewer people than in 2001--and the losses are higher at big-city metros. The impact was especially severe on overseas bureaus, in state capitals and in Washington. Half the states no longer have a newspaper covering the U.S. Congress. And the change in the product is manifest. The physical dimensions of the daily paper are smaller, ads now are common on front pages, sections have disappeared and some papers have stopped printing or delivering on unprofitable days. (from "Key findings")

What can I say? We're living through a revolution, and it's not clear how (or if) we'll get information about the world in 5 or 10 years.