Sometime soon, millions of people may find themselves unwittingly involved in a test that could profoundly change their daily routines, local economies and civic lives. They’ll have to figure out how to keep up with City Hall, their neighborhoods and their kids’ schools  as well as store openings, new products and sales  without a 170-year-old staple of daily life: a local newspaper. At least one city  possibly San Francisco, Miami, Minneapolis or Cleveland  likely will soon lose its last daily newspaper, analysts say. And it “could be a lot more widespread than people have been predicting,” says Mike Simonton, who tracks media debt for Fitch Ratings. … Continue reading David Lieberman