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The newspaper industry is entering a new . The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has become America's first newspaper to stop and become the first newspaper to online only. The newspaper was 146 years old, the oldest in Washington State.

Only about 20 people work for seattlepi.com , the Internet version of the newspaper. Once, over 150 people worked in the of Seattle's most famous paper. There is only one newspaper left in Seattle, The Times. Many people think that it could follow the Post-Intelligencer by going online only as well.

Among other big cities in the US, Denver only has one daily newspaper because the Rocky Mountain News closed a few weeks ago. Some newspapers around the US are afraid of going .

One of the main problems that newspapers face today is . Big local newspapers earn a lot of their money with ads. But that market has moved to advertising on the Internet which is either free or very little. Another reason is that many newspapers have become bigger and bigger. They have spent too much money and buying up other papers.

Newspapers are costs wherever they can. In Detroit, daily newspapers their papers on only three days a week. In Ohio the state's largest newspapers are sharing stories. Almost 8,000 jobs have been lost in the newspaper industry.

Newspapers have lost millions of readers in the past years because a new generation of readers has . Much of the news that people get online still comes from newspapers and most of them it for free. While newspapers have fewer reporters in big cities and abroad, observers say that they have lost much of their . The big question is: Will they find a new home on the Internet?