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Some commentators are mourning the decline of the newspaper as web-based news rises, lamenting that quality, standards, and depth of research are going the way of the hula hoop.

But here's the problem: as newspapers lose circulation, they cut back on newsroom staff, and then the quality, standards, and depth of research decline.

A new study from the Project for Excellence in Journalism's study, called "The Changing Newsroom: What is Being Gained and What is Being Lost in America's Daily Newspapers" looked at the changing face of newsrooms and found that stories have gotten shorter, and only 5% of editors felt they could predict what the newsroom would look like in just five years.

But I wonder if the opposite is true: as websites continue to take market share away from the newspapers and have the resources to make considerable investments, will web-based journalism become better than newspapers? It seems likely.

If that's the case, then all the complaining about the death of the newspaper is misplaced. The sooner it dies and consolidates onto the internet, the sooner we'll have high quality journalism available for free, online, at our fingertips.

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