Two more steps toward the end

Teaching Publication Arts at this moment is a strange experience: every piece of news about the industry seems a sign of decline. Two more such signs:

• The Washington Post is discontinuing its Book World as a special section in the Sunday papers. (This hits me especially hard, as I grew up in the DC suburbs and read "Book World" every week.) Possible positive sign: "Book World" will continue as an online entity, apparently.
  
• Sara Nelson, Editor in Chief at Publishers Weekly, has been laid off. Is anybody safe?