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This digital document is an article from American Journalism Review, published by University of Maryland on November 1, 1995. The length of the article is 834 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.From the supplier: Newspapers should take a lesson from the Great Depression farmers who ate their seed corn and, in the process, mortgaged their futures. The industry is considering reducing the web width of newspapers to cut the high costs of newsprint. This change would shrink the news hole and the size of ads, which could alienate advertisers. Perhaps newspaper executive should consider increasing expenses to draw in readers and advertisers, rather than cutting them.Citation DetailsTitle: When newspapers eat their own seed corn. (Cost-cutting may hurt the future of newspapers)Author: John MortonPublication: American Journalism Review (Refereed)Date: November 1, 1995Publisher: University of MarylandVolume: v17 Issue: n9 Page: p52(1)Distributed by Thomson Gale