The Digital Slay-RideWhat's killing newspapers is the same thing that killed the slide rule.
Posted Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2008, at 7:48 PM ET
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StumbleUponIn 2005, Jack Shafer noted how, in the 1970s, newspapers bundled into their product an array of service journalism and specialty sections to survive. In 2007, he found the good news in the falling valuations of newspapers. In 2005, Stephen Rodrick explained how television killed the newspaper sports column.
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