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Vol. I · No. 1Prolonging the Slow Death of NewspapersEst. 2026

Goodbye, 600

Tommy T (thanks, Oliver): The business I love has put a lot of good people on the street and left behind a lot of empty buildings. I love it anyway, and so do the people who came by the paper Thursday, not so much to say goodbye to the old building but to say hello again to one another. I did most of the best work of my life with those people, and had most of the good times I'll ever have, and met the woman I married. Newspapers can break your heart. But I'll let it be broken every time for what I got out of the deal.

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