Moreover, given the squeeze on editorial budgets, can newspapers afford to sustain both arts criticism and arts coverage?
"It's not just golf," said Reid, who pointed to the relative dearth of newspaper coverage afforded the English team during the recent women's soccer World Cup.
The piece, which was written mainly by St. Clair McKelway and was published under the title "Who Is This King of Glory?," helped Liebling get accustomed to the time and the space that no newspaper could afford him.
For five years I chronicled Roddick's career for his hometown newspaper, which afforded me a front-row seat for his remarkable run to the 2003 title, his rise to No. 1 and his epic battles, in no particular order, with Roger Federer, various chair umpires and his own dueling natures.
"Nobody who works for a newspaper can afford to be complacent," the columnist Ian Jack wrote in The Guardian, discussing the impact of personnel reductions.
EUROPE, wrote Akhbar, one of Iran's quieter newspapers, cannot afford to ignore Iran's strategic value.
One thing I learned while reporting this piece is that senators no longer receive much coverage from home-state press because so few newspapers can afford to have Washington bureaus any more.
Slate Magazine will begin its own monthly book review section to compete with the dwindling resources that newspapers can afford to give to book reviews, including Slate's own sister publication, The Washington Post.
"In New Jersey, there are not a lot of places that do work that is accessible to a broad audience in somewhat more depth than newspapers can afford to do," he said.
This might prove too much of a challenge and, while national newspapers can afford to send multiple staff to hearings such as the Assange extradition, regionals that have already cut back court coverage drastically do not have such resources.
