As newspapers change, is news coverage suffering?

Ownership changes. Contract buyouts. A publisher switches sides. Both of the Twin Cities metropolitan dailies have gone through some big changes lately. With papers nationwide feeling increased pressures from Wall Street and the Internet, is news coverage suffering?

Guests

• Lowell Bergman: Investigative reporter for the PBS series Frontline and journalism professor at the University of California, Berkley. Bergman has worked for a variety of publications including The New York Times, and he spent 14 years as a producer for CBS's 60 Minutes. Bergman's latest project for Frontline was called "News War."

More from MPR

• Familiar names leaving Star Tribune
  March 12, 2007
• Star Tribune hires publisher away from rival St. Paul Pioneer Press
  March 5, 2007
• What Ridder brings to the Star Tribune
  March 5, 2007
• Star Tribune publisher stepping down
  February 16, 2007
• City Pages editor will step down
  January 24, 2007
• The changing newspaper landscape
  December 29, 2006
• A reporter's lament and a call to arms
  December 1, 2006

Resources

• Watch Frontline's "News War" documentary online