I'm confused. I'm reading today that the Minneapolis Star Tribune is the latest newspaper planning to drop the AP. In two years they will no longer include any Associated Press news on their pages. The Strib is the latest to do this as a cost-cutting measure. At the same time, papers across the country are laying off news staff right and left. How are the newspapers planning on filling up their pages over the next couple of years? No reporters = no reporting, right? Do the publishers have a trick up their collective sleeve? Has Google finally created the robot reporter app every PR person dreams of? Or is all the hype actually true? Is the death of the newspaper upon us?

-Jen Scott