'As the plunging circulation of printed newspapers forces their publishers online in search of profits, the old-style newspaper baron looks increasingly like a figure from a distant past. The Age, once the money-factory on which David Syme’s newspaper fortune depended, now sells something over 100,000 print copies each weekday, around the same number as it did in 1900. If the Age was bought today by the same proportion of Melbourne’s population as in 1900, sales would approach a million copies a day. Things have changed. (Introduction)