• Columbia Journalism Review, Friday, April 5, 2013 2:30 PM

The Cleveland Plain Dealer, "whose reporters organized one of the industry’s most active opposition movements against its parent company’s plans for cutbacks," expects "to cut more than a third of its newsroom staff," trim home delivery to three days a week, and start a new digital division, according to The New York Times' Christine Haughney.

Dean Starkman pokes holes in this strategy, and also criticizes what Newhouse's Advance Publications, the paper's parent company, has done for other pubs like the New Orleans Time-Picayune  -- all steps "much more likely an 'orderly liquidation' of Newhouse assets cynically carried out under the banner of digital progress."

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