Summary: How is newswork changing? To the degree reporting and editing in Philadelphia are changing, it is in inverse proportion to their degree of insularity from web-grounded notions of shifting concepts of news time, reporting at a distance, and increased demands for content. There are also emerging forms of newswork in Philadelphia, forms that include web production and varieties of formal and informal blogging. Journalists are also increasingly becoming conscious their audience, though in a highly quantitative fashion. How are journalists forging new collaborative chains with other institutionalized and deinstitutionalized newsworkers? They are rarely doing so. Cross-institutional collaboration between different professional and semi-professional news institutions was uncommon during the time period and in the location analyzed here, due in part to cultural barriers between institutions, and in part because of bureaucratic, organizational impediments. How is journalistic authority, finally, changing? The failure of local organizations to weave together a news production network out of the unbundled structures and practices of decomposing news institutions has resulted in a deeply fractured system of local journalistic authority.