This blog is taking a holiday and will not return - unless something really extraordinary happens - until 25 April.
I am going to California and hope, while I'm there, to meet journalists who are facing up to a newsprint decline that is happening faster there than here.
Maybe they will take heart from signs of a US newspaper industry collaboration that has seen increased revenue streams, according to a Financial Times article today.
It reports that a Washington conference, which brought together the Newspaper Association of America, the Associated Press and the American Society of Newspaper Editors, learned of game-changing innovation, experimentation and creativity.
There is a belief that digital revenues are increasing as people become used to paywalls. Readers are also paying for tablet apps.
On the other hand a Generator Research report predicts that newspapers in north America still face an overall decline in revenues, from $36.4bn in 2011 to $32bn this year.
You pays your money and...
