The economics of the online news business will not support the infrastructure or newsroom that the printed paper supports.
Unless the New York Times Company can come up with a miracle new digital revenue stream, therefore, it will eventually have to be restructured and downsized (or sold to a deep-pocketed Sydney Harmon-type who runs it at a loss out of love).
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Importantly, even a successful online paywall will not allow the paper to maintain its current cost structure.
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