• Art & Seek, Thursday, December 11, 2008 9:18 AM

Daily newspapers in financial straits are inventing new ways to cope, since buyours and layoffs have reduced arts writers and editors.

For instance, the Dallas and Fort Worth daily newspapers will no longer have separate reviews of many cultural events. The two city papers, the Dallas Morning News and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, have begun running the same reviews by the same writers.

In effect, there is a single daily newspaper arts staff unevenly divided between the two newsrooms. The Star-Telegram, for example, doesn't have a classical music critic on staff, but the Morning News does, so the News' critic takes over the classical music duties for both cities. In visual arts, the Fort Worth staffer covers both newspapers.

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