MBP Overview: Newspapers Struggle to Survive, Updated 4/18

The gloomy news coming from the newspaper industry - lay-offs, plummeting ad pages, shrinking readership, the rising costs of publishing a print edition - seems to continue unabated as each week brings more announcements of closures, pressure from stockholders to increase value, and speculation that the day of the print newspapers is over. One, the world's oldest newspaper which has lost the battle to remain in print, is perhaps an illustration of just how dire the situation for print publications has become.