Scripps-Howard to shutter Cincinnati Post and Kentucky Post. This after Gannett, owner of the rival Inquirer, decided not to renew the papers' joint operating agreement, which has been in effect since 1977. (How things change: Almost exactly 43 years ago Scripps owned both the Inquirer and the Post, and the Justice Department was suing to break up the ownership on monopoly grounds. Time story: Apartness in Cincinnati.)

80 employees apply for 20 buy-out slots at the Indianapolis Star.

In the Twin Cities, the St.Paul Pioneer Press wants to shed 30 more employees, after cutting 30 in December. Across town, the Star-Tribune's union has called for the paper's publisher to resign. [Minnesota Public Radio story.] And James Lileks asks:

Is there room for two newspapers in this town? What can newspapers do to stop the slump - or are they doomed to shrink until they collapse like guttered-out stars?

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