New York Daily News Editorial Staff Slashed in Half –NPR

The move now to gut the Daily News’s newsroom will be a blow to local watchdog journalism in the nation’s largest city. It has retained a punch in local news at a time when the The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal have retreated from metro coverage. […]

[Daily News editor] Jim Rich made his anger toward the cuts known on Twitter, first by tweeting early Monday morning: “If you hate democracy and think local governments should operate unchecked and in the dark, then today is a good day for you.”