Chip Griffin: Pardon the Disruption: The Future of the Newspaper Industry

Just days after we learn that the publisher of the New York Times expects not to be publishing a print edition -- perhaps in as short as 5 years -- BusinessWeek runs an interesting story about a private equity firm buying up hundreds of small local newspapers. Fortress Investment Group began rolling up these guys into GateHouse Media and presently controls over 400 publications. GateHouse went pu