Agenda at Newspaper Summit: Survive

A group of newspaper muckety-mucks converged on a hotel in a Chicago suburb to discuss the state of their troubled business Thursday.

But about the only thing to come out of the meeting a day later has been further losses for old-line media stocks and talk of possible antitrust violations.

The most pressing item on the meeting's itinerary, according to reports -- and possibly the most pressing issue in the print-media industry right now -- was whether and how to begin charging readers for content online. ...