A2: Ann Arbor News

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Chicago Tribune columnist Eric Zorn – who grew up in Ann Arbor – writes about the demise of the Ann Arbor News and the launch of the new entity that’s replacing it, AnnArbor.com: “This radical reinvention looks ominously like a smoke screen for radical cost-cutting and wholesale firings, one that will be replicated in city after city where lone, moribund daily newspapers are so many dominoes waiting to fall now that this first one has toppled. As I mourn the passing of the Ann Arbor News, I’m haunted by the fear that AnnArbor.com will succeed. Even more, I’m haunted by the fear that it will fail.” [Source]