As the San Francisco Chronicle prepares to lose 25% of its newsroom, some hope the cutbacks - as grim as they are - will force the newspaper to return to its roots as a city paper, instead of the regional one it has become.
But even if narrowing its coverage is the way to win back readers, personnel cuts on this scale will affect news inevitably on the local level.
The Chronicle announced the layoffs last month, but it's not ...