Newsonomics: When News Companies Are No Longer Built to Last

I’ve gotten feedback about vulture capitalists, hatchet men, and chop shops, and of close-to-retirement publishers getting that unexpected knock on the door from visiting corporate vice presidents.   I’ve heard about 30-year-old journalists turning in their resignations, and other young reporters trying to stick it out, writing me: “I’m a reporter at [a local Digital First Media paper], and your story reflected all the questions and frustrations I’ve had continuously in the past two weeks.