St. Louis Post-Dispatch owner keeps cutting down its papers. That hurts communities

Livia Ziskey, a college student majoring in journalism, remembers the local newspaper being delivered when she was growing up in Omaha. Her father still takes the Omaha World-Herald, although he'll be getting one fewer edition starting in early November, when the World-Herald and other daily newspapers owned by Lee Enterprises will stop printing on Mondays.

"He grew up as a paperboy delivering papers in his Omaha neighborhood," said Ziskey, a senior at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Ziskey is an intern at the Lincoln Journal-Star, the Lee newspaper serving Nebraska's state capital. It's one of the dailies included in the no-print Monday change, but that doesn't faze her — nor does the general uncertainty about the future of her chosen profession.

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