Outcry After NOLA's Daily Paper Cuts Back (With '60 Minutes' Video)

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By Morely Safer / CBS News

Story Created: Jan 8, 2013 at 8:53 AM AKDT

Story Updated: Jan 8, 2013 at 8:58 AM AKDT

The great steel presses of The Times-Picayune are mostly silent now, reduced to working less than half the time. The questions is: Will it become less than half of what it once was?

And there are rumblings that an even larger Newhouse newspaper, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, founded in 1842 and with a circulation close to 300,000, could soon be next.

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Jim Amoss, the longtime editor of The Times-Picayune, addresses whether the quality of the paper's reporting will be affected by moving to a digital platform. Will journalists be judged by the amount of online traffic their stories receive?

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