Human resrouces - Fire in the face of competition - "Another Round of Layoffs at San Diego Paper" - Media Decoder Blog - NYTimes.com

San Diego is another US market well worth watching. Here you have a highly-regarded and successful previously family-owned newspaper in a much-promoted market in Southern California that has now moved to ownership by an investment firm, continues to cut employees and is facing wave after wave of new electronic competition. Managing its way out of where the newspaper finds itself is going to be a challenge of monumental proportions and well worth studying.

Following that news, here is some optimism from San Diego.