One of the two local daily's, The Captial Times, will cease having a print version as of this Saturday. The paper is trying to put as much positive spin as possible on their foray into twice a week printed supplements in the other daily, the Wisconsin State Journal, and a daily presence online. Madison is a very well wired and connected town, but I don't know how long the Cap Times will last as an online institution. The readership numbers were already quite low, and I think a good portion of those subscribers are less likely to use the web for their local news sourcing.
In any event, Madison gets to join the standard American media landscape, whereby the daily news is dominated by a single source... At least we still have the Isthmus.
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