This in from The Huffington Post, according to a survey from the Associated Press Managing Editors, young staff at newspapers are being the first to get cut in this downturn for the industry. The findings also support recent surveys that state that the newspaper industry is maintaining a diverse edge in newsrooms. But, the cutting of young staff seems antithetical to the efforts of trying to liven up papers around the country. With so many young people entering newsrooms that are plugged into the social scope of the internet, it would seem as though newspapers are shooting themselves in the proverbial foot, all for the sake of lineage and tradition. It is not to say that that tradition hasn’t wrought some amazing moments, but to forsake the future for the even growing past just seems to provoke demise.

The full article goes more deeply into what young reporters are doing in the wake of these firings, which it hints at being jobs in new media. With the closing of August we can expect to hear more stories in the news and about the news, so stay tuned.

An interesting item seen today on The Huffington Post alerts us to AMC and Regal Entertainment Group cutting their listings from local hometown newspapers. Instead, there is a new focus built on funneling the masses to their business website or even third party websites, such as Fandango, to find current movie listings. This makes sense in a day and age where most of us are connected to the internet, but as the stance of The Revival Network, the local newspaper is the bastion for all things relevant to a community and still the most democratic way to disperse new information. AMC and Regal are not taking a gamble on this, because the signs of the time are upon us regarding newspapers, but still there is a large section of citizens that still rely on their newspapers for this type of information. Go to here for the full story.

Three stories rolling in today from the gold standard of aggregate news sites, The Huffington Post, on the current state of the newspaper. First, this video from NPR CEO Vivian Schiller, who once ran the New York Times website. Schiller states her sentiments that newspapers need to be free, stating that the loss of subscriptions will free up a paper for more ad revenue.

Then, this story seen on the Financial Times website, wherein the discussion is about making the content worthy of being paid for. Seems like these two arguments are at odds with one another, with Schiller saying the content is there, let’s just make it free and the Financial Times saying the content isn’t good enough as a consumer good. Very interesting takes.

Lastly, Michael Liedtke of Huff Post brings this story of 28% of newspaper executives weighing subscription or online news fees to save the paper. The models are based on The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and Idaho’s Post Register, both of which use a model of subscription to the daily paper gives the audience access to all the news content on the site. Interesting again to link to Schiller due in large part to the New York Times dropping this model years ago to allow free news to all, a service that has been beneficial to those who stay informed, but bad for business.

This is an interesting story coming from the Huffington Post. The article is titled “John Kerry: Newspaper “Endangered Species”, but that doesn’t seem to do justice to the issues being discussed, primarily a bill presented by Senator Ben Cardin wherein newspapers would become non-profits, thus becoming similar to PBS and NPR, along with hospitals, churches, and schools. An interesting though, especially considering how necessary a daily newspaper is to small communities, but also a seemingly desperate act that needs more deliberation. That’s where David Simon (formerly of the Baltimor Sun and most recently creator of The Wire) and Ariana Huffington (of the Huffington Post) come in. Read the full post