How have newspapers responded to their current financial situation?

The U.S. newspaper industry is suffering through what could be its worst financial crisis since the  Great Depression. Advertising revenues have plummeted due in part to the severe economic  downturn, while readership habits have changed as consumers turn to the Internet for free news  and information. Some major newspaper chains are burdened by heavy debt loads. Between 2008  and early 2010, eight major newspaper chains declared bankruptcy, several big city papers shut  down, and many laid off reporters and editors, imposed pay reductions, cut the size of the  physical newspaper, or turned to Web-only publication.

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