"Restoring service"

Richard Anderson of Village Soup sees the creation of mostly-online, and online-first papers, and then driving those stories to print, lowers the cost of running a paper, making it possible to “restore service to communities of 20,000 to 40,000 that they once had.” That is, the service of news for small towns that have become too expensive, and have too few advertisers, for traditional media companies to have a news operation there. Interesting.