Our hearts go out to the Berkeley community upon news that it is losing another newspaper. The Chronicle reported today that the Berkeley Daily Planet will stop printing because of an unbridgeable gap of “hundreds of thousands” of dollars.

The owners, Becky and Mike O’Malley, will continue to publish the paper online, they said, and retain their sole reporter. But it’s hard to believe that the print cessation of theweekly paper that reportedly reached 40,000 won’t affect the community.

Michael Stoll is senior editor and co-founder of the San Francisco Public Press. Formerly executive director, he has also been a reporter and freelance writer for local and national outlets, including the San Francisco Examiner and the Philadelphia Inquirer. He has taught journalism at two Bay Area universities, and researched media ethics at Stanford.