Romenesko

Slate
Newspaper veterans might recall the Newspaper Readership Project of the 1970s. The late press critic, David Shaw, wrote about its findings in 1976. His lede: "Are you now holding an endangered species in your hands?" Jack Shafer writes: "Print editions of newspapers, which saw the endgame coming 30 years ago and did everything they could to forestall it, need to figure out what they're best at and double down in those realms. ...Sports sections that refuse to retool themselves as the smart supplement to ESPN can kiss their pages goodbye."