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.
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