Arizona's Oldest Newspaper Prints Final Edition

[cieldumort]

BusinessWeek (AP)
Final edition of Tucson Citizen hits the streets
The headline on the final print edition of Saturday's Tucson Citizen newspaper said it all:
Our epitaphThe 48-page commemorative edition of Arizona's oldest daily newspaper was filled with individual columns from editors and staffers and highlights of the Citizen's 138 years of

Comments

[msretro]

I don't know that this is a sign of the recession, so much as a sign that newspapers failed to adapt to changing media. Basically, craigslist killed the print newspaper when it, and other free sites, killed classified revenue.

[cieldumort]

I think it's both, really. Recessions have a way of weeding out the week, under-performing, those not able or willing to adapt.

[cornykoreannerd]

i grew up with that paper being delivered to our house. :(

[cieldumort]

Yeah?

I used to read it when I lived in Arizona, and kept up online from time to time.

Sad.