The steep and continuous decline of high margin print advertising has led to significant financial challenges for most newspapers which are cutting costs and trying to find new revenue sources.

There should be a reduction in duplicative layers of article editing, and visual experts must play a primary role in covering some stories. It means more visual journalism. There should be focus on diversity within the manpower so as to reflect the audiences they seek. There is too much duplicative and low-value line editing. If this is removed, there will be reductions in editorial manpower. In print production, there is multi-layered editing in the newsrooms.

A typical newsroom for digital media is a lean structure. It is a smaller and more focused newsroom. Print media must reconfigure its newsroom accordingly.