Solid reporting about concessions made by the California Media Workers Guild to help the San Francisco Chronicle survive. This article provides good factual evidence and context about this important topic.

This is an event driven story that also provides good background about the reasons that the newspaper industry finds itself in such difficulties. It infers that the Internet is a major cause for the failing business model and only mentions tangentially near the end of the article that the Hearst company took on a lot of debt just before the market started to fall. It appears that the troubles of newspapers are a "perfect storm" of technological change, demographic change, poor business decisions and the economic downturn. Others would also argue that the content of newspapers also led to a lessening of consumer/citizen interest in what was being published. This article doesn't delve as deeply into those arguments, but does ... More »