Moving all operations online and cutting out print is the smartest thing newspapers can do now. - Inspired by the Christian Science Monitor’s new business model

As of April of next year, the century-old Christian Science Monitor will discontinue its print operations, moving completely online in order to cut costs.

According to the Monitor's editor, John Yemma, moving entirely to the Web will allow the paper to keep its foreign bureaus open. "We have the luxury — the opportunity — of making a leap that most newspapers will have to make in the next five years,” said Yemma.

The first national newspaper to move online, the Monitor's experiment will be closely watched by the media industry.