The world is changing very fast. My wife's cousin was a sportswriter for a big city paper, and to boot was president of one of the more prestigious national sportswriters groups. Didn't matter. A few years ago, his paper decided to cut the sports coverage drastically. Since then, in his 50s with two kids in college, he's floated from one temporary freelance job to another. He could have moved away for a job, but he didn't want to uproot his daughters who were near the end of hs at the time this happened, and his age was no help. Now, he makes his living with a daily, subscription on-line column. The print media is hurting and cut backs if not outright closure of departments are happening. I don't know if you've bothered to read my posts about a book I wrote, but many newspapers have cut out on-staff book reviewers. It affects the reviewer for sure, and cuts off an avenue for local/unknown author book reviews in a day when getting a national review for an unknown author is as likely as a solo swim across the Atlantic.