What Will Happen When the Presses Go Silent?

The Boston Globe had a story about the travails of the Portland Press Herald last week, and it included a plaintive and intriguing question from a reader of the struggling, up-for-sale Maine paper: “Can you even be a major city without a daily paper?” We’re going to find out the answer to that before very long, I’m afraid. And it’s worth thinking about what such a city will look like.

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