The decline of the American newspaper is hardly news – the industry’s ongoing death spiral [http://newspaperdeathwatch.com/] has been well documented by journalists (and it was the theme of The Wire’s [http://www.hbo.com/the-wire/index.html] worst season) (RIP, DeAndre [http://davidsimon.com/deandre-mccullough-1977-2012/]). Yet New