The Afterlife of America’s Newsrooms

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Development and plenty of it is springing up on the brick-and-mortar graves of old newspapers. In cities across the country, newspapers are shrinking and corporate owners are desperately monetizing whatever assets the Internet hasn't stolen from them.

In this week's Next City Forefront article, "Inside Big Real Estate's Play for San Francisco's Hipster-Geeks," journalist Nancy Scola took us to the storied home of the San Francisco Chronicle, now being redeveloped as part of Forest City's 5M development.

Where once were newspaper printing bays, tech companies do business. In concrete between-spaces, where reporters likely once procrastinated deadlines with cigarettes and sarcasm, there are food trucks and art projects aimed at connecting the building's new techie tenants to their neighbors.

It's not only in San Francisco where the changing news business means a changing cityscape.

Full article: http://nextcity.org/daily/entry/newspaper-buildings-redevelopment-old-media