Since buying the "Los Angeles Times" earlier this year, new billionaire owner Patrick Soon-Shiong has been bulking up the paper's staff.

HuffPost has unveiled a redesigned lifestyle section called HuffPost Life, with a new editorial mission to give a “no-B.S. guide to modern life.” “Lifestyle sites tend to suck,” HuffPost editor-in-chief Lydia Polgreen wrote in a post about the new site. “They can make you feel terrible about yourself, telling you that you are too fat, not rich enough and not cool enough. They tell you that the key to happiness is buying more stuff you don’t need and can’t afford. They traffic in telling people …

One in 10 local publishers don't have a website and many aren't present on Facebook. Google also holds inordinate power over their survival, as do the slow load rates of mobile apps.