[ahi]

They did that in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The local paper is now annarbor.com. It's terrible. They don't really have any professionals left. Most of the articles are written by interns or kids right out of school with no sense of history or context, and amount to "Theirs[sic] a story here, but can't be bothered to make phone call." Ostensibly they cover my neighboring town as well, but they just run the police crime blotter and auto-post Eastern Michigan University's press releases. They are still losing a ton of money.

[tptacek]

In fairness, was the local paper in Ann Arbor ever any good? (I lived there from '01-'05).

Small communities have been poorly served by local papers long before the Internet ate them.

[ahi]

I don't think it was ever very good, but they did fire a bunch of people I would consider competent. Apparently competent is too expensive.

[wglb]

It was OK for a community of that size in 75-83.