Along with Northwestern colleague Mike Smith, I chatted with a Voice of America reporter recently about the newspaper industry’s path through its current thicket.

In March, the Chicago Sun Times newspaper filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. It was the latest in a series of newspaper bankruptcies and closures across the United States. As VOA’s Kane Farabaugh reports, the recent troubles come as new and emerging digital technologies are putting the future of news print, once revered and unassailable, in question.

via Bankruptcies, Closures Plague Newspaper Industry – VOANews.com