This is rarely a good sign in the publishing industry: USA Today to Remake Itself to Stress Digital Operations

I give them credit that they’ve realized that a general-interest newspaper distributed mostly at airports, hotels (the only two places I’ve ever read it) and restaurants can no longer compete with free papers like the Metro that repackage much of the same content or sites like Google News that allow online readers to go directly to the source. I also give them credit for not engaging in finger-pointing and blaming the Internet for their problems while at the same time announcing that the Internet will be their industry’s savior… once the Internet is changed to fit the industry’s decaying business model. But this still seems like a pretty steep climb for USA Today.