Here's another one for you, also from the NPPA website.

"ANN ARBOR, MI (March 23, 2009) – Ann Arbor News publisher Laurel Champion called a staff meeting for 9 a.m. today and told employees that the newspaper will close in July and be replaced by a Web-only media company called AnnArbor.com.

While praising the staff Champion said, "There is nothing they did or didn't do that would have sustained our seven-day print business model."

"While this is an incredibly difficult decision for us, this is by no means the end of local journalism in Ann Arbor," Champion told the staff.

The publisher said the Web site will produced a printed newspaper twice a week, on Thursday and Sunday.

The News has been published as a daily newspaper for 174 years, and will continue as a daily until the change over in July, the publisher said.

The paper "was struggling as a daily print newspaper with steep losses in 2008," Champion said, while "at the same time the demand for local news and information in a wired community has never been stronger."

There was other big news in Michigan newspapers today as well, as The Flint Journal, The Saginaw News, and The Bay City Times announced today that they will stop publishing daily and instead print a newspaper only three days a week - on Thursdays, Fridays, and Sundays - with an "intensified" Web offering daily and an emphasis on more local news.

Flint Journal publisher Dave Sharp said that the change was driven by the economy, but that also "changing consumer trends are behind the moves as well."

"We will no longer be just a print medium," Sharp wrote to readers today. "We are evolving into a company that will offer information and advertising through video, digital, direct marketing, and print channels."

Meanwhile in Lexington, KY, today the Lexington Herald-Leader announced that 53 employees are being laid off (49 full-time and four part-time) as a cost-cutting measure.

Publisher Timothy M. Kelly said the reduction of the staff by about 15 percent also includes a 5 percent wage reduction for remaining employees who make more than $25,000 yearly, and a 10 percent pay cut for the paper's executives (including the elimination of their bonus plans). The Herald-Leader is a McClatchy newspaper. This is the third round of layoffs at the Lexington newspaper in the last year."