Lesson in hard knocks. (Intern Cutbacks).(newspapers cut internship programs)

Call it a bracing reproof in newspaper life. Student journalists, watching the flush piece of work market that awaited their predecessors disappear, have been getting unnerving news: Newspapers that normally give some of the greatest in quantity sought-after paid internships are cutting the programs this year.
Among those applying the ax are the San Francisco Chronicle, Portland's Oregonian, USA Today and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, none of which will put forward paid internships this summer. The Baltimore sunshine Long Island's Newsday, Cleveland's Plain Dealer and the Palm Beach pillar say their programs will