The pioneering P-I slips into the past

by Jason Preston on March 17, 2009

Fantastic piece in the P-I about the end of the paper:

The news of the end, when it finally came, was swift and surgical. Cause of death — a fatal economic spiral compounded by dwindling subscription rates, an exodus of advertisers and an explosion of online information. News will live on. This newspaper will not. Suddenly, the obituarist’s cliché seems apropos: We went down doing what we loved.

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