Number one goal of new management has to be financial survival of the paper, otherwise all the reporters will go.  It must have been a very difficult decision for them.  Erik Hill is a great photographer and Dermot Cole did a good job of explaining the background of fiscal and other issues.  They will be missed.  In the meantime, one of the most important things the paper can do to enhance its credibility is to refuse to reprint the endless articles from NYT and Wash Post that contain references to "anonymous sources", "those close to the situation" and "an unnamed former official of the Obama administration."  That is not journalism.