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As all observers of the newspaper industry are acutely aware, after an explosion of consolidation and exploding debt during the 1990s and earlier this decade, the recession of 2008-09 has been a near-death experience for many newspaper stocks. As massive goodwill writeoffs, dividend cuts, "junk" bond ratings, shuttered papers, sharp layoffs and some bankruptcies followed, even such former stalwarts as Gannett, McClatchy and The New York Times were staring into the abyss.
