To anyone who is attempting to find a job at a newspaper right now, my heart goes out to you.  Attending a journalism school, I know a few who are lucky enough to be doing so in a recession.  It’s slim pickins out there.

A friend of mine sent a job inquiry to the editor of the New Jersey Star Ledger and was told that they had “abandoned” all hiring and internship programs.  Not suspended.  ABANDONED.  Ouch.

Adam Singer over at FutureBuzz wrote a pretty concise summary of how most newspapers just don’t get how to make the internet work for them yet.  It’s part of an ongoing series indicting the traditional print industry for essentially taking the same route as the record labels did in the face of technologically-mandated marketplace evolution.  That worked out well.