In 2008, the UK's premier paper, The Times, laid off large numbers of employees after losing £ 44 million (roughly NT $ 2.2 billion). In the US, the Christian Science Monitor announced in 2008 that it would cease to print daily editions and would instead offer only an online daily version beginning in April 2009, with a print edition only on Sundays.
2008 年英國菁英報「泰晤士報」慘賠 4,400 萬英鎊（約 22 億台幣），不得不大幅裁員；美國的「基督教科學箴言報」在 2008 年底宣布，自 2009 年 4 月開始停止印刷每日報紙，只提供電子版；周末才提供印刷版。