Sunday, June 20

Online News Outlet Turns to Print

On Tuesday, the San Francisco Public Press will do something that few Web-based news outlets have done before: go to print. The Press, a nonprofit news source that started covering local issues online in 2009, will release a full 20-page main section with an eight-page pullout - bucking a national trend whereby startup, nonprofit news Web sites sprout online and stay in cyberspace.

This "backward" move from the Web to potential daily print has surprised many. "There are a bunch of digital evangelists who have made it their career and their business to proclaim the death of print, and to say the sky is falling," he says.

Read more at the San Francisco Chronicle.