They’re doing what needs to be done. To quote again from the Shafer Slate story:
In their dying, the best newspapers are plotting–and experiencing–rebirths as multiplatform news companies. They’re building out their Web sites, investing in free daily tabloids, partnering more extensively with radio and TV, sending advertiser-supported news to cell phones, and frantically devising business models to make the new equation work.
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