As circulation and revenue at daily newspapers have plunged, thousands of journalists have been laid off and stockholders have forced top news organizations out of business. STOP THE PRESSES goes inside the disheartened newsrooms of America to document this devastation, and journeys into the communities these papers serve to learn what readers think of journalism’s fate. A number of well-known professionals from the newspaper and journalism world give their insight into the state of the business, including Washington Post Vice President At Large Ben Bradlee, columnist Dave Barry, writer Todd Gitlin and New Yorker columnist Ken Auletta.