Blogger Jeff Jarvis has some good thoughts on how to revive the local newspaper: focus on your market, don't waste paper and ink on things that are increasingly anachronistic (like stock quotes and TV listings), and don't waste money to send a local sports writer on junkets to the US Open when you can syndicate the best of the national writers. I can get the national news online on cnn.com or on TV at Fox News, but I can only read about local news, artists, bands, and cultural happenings in my local paper. That is added value that people might be willing to pay for, whether they get it online or in newsprint, or both.

Hat tip to the World Magazine blog for the link.