The DNT won't be far behind, judging by the dearth of content. Who's going to buy a paper with nothing in it? 

Maybe now's the time for a non-profit press.

The rate of decline in the entire industry is stunning. Hearst Co will be releasing new e-reader for subscribers (later this year). Maybe something like a cell phone contract? Does make you think about the future value of giant printing presses, and what it means to have a "durable competitive advantage".

Luckly we have the transitor and PDD Yea liberal media

Um, Karasu, you've got it mixed up a bit. It's expected that the major newspapers would have trouble first, because they are the ones that were most dependent on classifieds, home ads and car ads (gutted by Craigslist), and they are the ones with the most competition, and many are owned by companies that took on huge debt to buy them.

It's the papers in the little "where nothing happens" towns that, by in large, are doing the best in all this, because they've probably been largely untouched by media saturation and Craiglist, and probably are owned by smaller companies without huge debt burdens. 

Where Duluth stands... not sure. Probably somewhere in the middle.

And one other thought - all these papers closing / about to close - Rocky Mountain News, Seattle P-I, Albuquerque Tribune, Tucson Citizen - so far are in two-newspaper towns, with joint operating agreements. They have their own unique set of difficulties. The real one to watch is the San Francisco Chronicle. If / when that goes under, as some predict, in a one-paper town (media-saturated town, hit hardest by Craigslist and others, but still a one-paper town) - that's a really big deal.

As for the Duluth Joke Tribune one problem it is having is that no one reads it, mostly because there is nothing left in the newspaper to read.  I knew this was going to happen I use to live in Fargo and subscribed to the Forum out there and it was about as threadbare as the DNT is getting now.  That was 15 years ago and the Forum had already cut the newspaper to nothing, I wonder if what they are delivering now is actually smaller or larger than the Transistor.