07/20/2009
After 174 years of publishing a daily PRINT newspaper, this week The Ann Arbor News is forced to reinvent itself as an online-only news operation, NBC's Sheila Conlin reports in this video. That means Ann Arbor, Michigan, becomes the first major American city without a local daily PRINT newspaper.
■Class discussion: If your local newspaper stops printing, will you miss it? What will you miss? Where will you (or your parents) turn to for local news and information? What do newspapers provide that television and the Internet can't (or don't)?