Waves of layoffs and buyouts have swept through journalism generally and newspapers in particular over the past decade. Dale Maharidge tells some of the victims' stories and mourns the loss: "Like the story of Willy Loman, cast aside in his creeping middle age, the tale of today’s discarded journalists is, at its core, a parable of the way our economy, our whole American way of being, sucks people dry and throws them away as their cultural and economic currency wanes."
March 7, 2016