Meanwhile, here are links to national-media coverage of the P-I debacle, as aggregated at Crosscut and at the P-I itself.

Ex-P-I columnist Jon Hahn remembers when “bright-orange P-I delivery boxes were everywhere as you drove through the rolling hills of the Palouse, along the hardtop roads in the San Juan Island group and the wheat country in eastern Washington.”

Ex-P-I assistant managing editor Neal Pattison remembers that the paper “possessed a ragamuffin toughness. Like a two-fisted street kid, it earned its share of battle scars and wore them proudly.”

Some guy named Larry Kramer believes the online-only remnant of the P-I “could be the catalyst behind a new era in the news business.”

Elsewhere in saving-the-news, Time‘s Michael Scherer sees the future of online news as an incessant barrage of Twitter-size headlines, with the same event covered in as many as nine different angles with different leads to appeal to the tastes of different readers and aggregator sites.

Sara Catania sees two online news formats rising. The first is that of Talking Points Memo, a national site for hardcore politics geeks, and a for-profit entity that still accepts donations. The other is that of Voice of San Diego, a local site for anybody who cares about its city, and a not-for-profit entity that still sells ads.