Industry profits are shrinking, and many newspaper companies have large debts from buying other papers.

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Exactly what industry experts have been telling papers across the country to do.

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Many industry analysts agree many more papers will soon become extinct.

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Smith said, the industry had no say on how the papers were written and his tenure means he isn't personally dependent on such grants.

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