A new age for the local news business?

© iStockphoto.com/Shawn Gearhart

© iStockphoto.com/Shawn Gearhart

In New Orleans, a famous daily newspaper just announced it won't be daily any more. But in this Nieman Journalism Lab post, Ken Doctor sees hope, as circulation replaces advertising in the income stream: "Subscribers are learning they are paying for a news product, not a physical one delivered to their driveway," he writes. "The early evidence is that smartly executed, print subscribers can be brought along, with their paid subscriptions, into the mainly digital age."