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Death of Newspapers

All The News Not Fit To Print

Daniel Koas | Posted 01.23.2012 | High School

Daniel Koas

Every morning, I awkwardly tiptoe to the end of my driveway in my bare feet and pick up the plastic-wrapped treasure that awaits. Why? Because I love reading the newspaper.

So Much for the Penny Press

Jeff Jarvis | Posted 01.08.2012 | Media

Jeff Jarvis

The New York Times raised its daily price to $2.50 today. I thought back to the penny press at the turn of the last century and wondered what such a paper would cost today, inflation adjusted. Answer: a quarter.

The Internet Makes Trust and Insight Scarce Commodities, and Makes Newsroom Veterans More Valuable

Dr Johnny Ryan | Posted 01.23.2012 | Media

Dr Johnny Ryan

While the Internet makes information plentiful, and this in turn may be a challenge to some aspects of the newspaper business, deep insight and trust remain as scarce as they have ever been.

The Newspaper That Almost Seized The Future

cjr.org | Posted 01.11.2012 | Media

The story of the Merc's rise and decline--there is nothing so telling as only four pages of midweek classifieds--mirrors the story of what has occurre...

Layoffs At New York Daily News

Capital New York | Joe Pompeo | Posted 01.04.2012 | Media

Layoffs have come to the Daily News. Since this morning, staffers to be laid off have been getting called into a conference room to meet with senio...

Washington Post Co. Has Yet Another Bleak Quarter

The Huffington Post | Katherine Fung | Posted 01.04.2012 | Media

The Washington Post had its fourth straight quarter of declining revenue, announcing a $6.2 million loss for the third quarter of 2011 on Friday. ...

The Times And Sunday Times Cutting 150 Jobs

guardian.co.uk | Dan Sabbagh | Posted 12.20.2011 | Media

The Times and Sunday Times are to cut at least 150 editorial posts, out of their combined full- and part-time workforce of approaching 1,000, as the n...

Gannett Income Falls In Q3

AP | BARBARA ORTUTAY | Posted 12.17.2011 | Media

NEW YORK — Gannett Co., the publisher of USA Today and 81 other daily newspapers, posted a slight decline in its third-quarter net income Monday...

News Junkies Ruining Newspapers

Posted 12.14.2011 | Media

Global newspaper circulation fell in 2010 for the second consecutive year according to the World Press Trends report released on Thursday. The report ...

New York Times Announces Staff Cuts

Posted 12.13.2011 | Media

The New York Times announced on Thursday that it is seeking to cut around 20 newsroom positions in response to an "uncertain economy." Times editor...

Intriguing New Facts About Our Love For Local News

The Huffington Post | Rebecca Shapiro | Posted 11.26.2011 | Media

The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism released a study on Monday with some intriguing new facts about how people rely on loca...

News Execs: Mobile Is The Future Of News

AP | KRISTEN WYATT | Posted 11.15.2011 | Media

DENVER — News executives opening the Associated Press Managing Editors meeting in Denver on Wednesday said mobile news delivery offers newspaper...

Newspaper Ad Spending Down 7 Percent In Q2

MarketWatch | Posted 11.01.2011 | Media

CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- Newspaper advertising spending fell 7% in the second quarter to $6 billion, the Newspaper Association of America said Thursda...

More Layoffs At LA Times

Posted 10.15.2011 | Media

The Los Angeles Times has announced another round of layoffs, this time in the press room. The company said in a statement that it would lay off a...

Washington Post Profits Crater

Posted 10.05.2011 | Media

The Washington Post reported a 50% drop in second quarter earnings on Friday, brought on by declining revenue from the company's Kaplan Higher Educati...

Newspapers: Worth Saving?

Lee Robson | Posted 10.03.2011 | Media

Lee Robson

It's far too early to tell yet how the UK newspaper industry is going to emerge once all this over. One interesting question to contemplate is, will the current crisis lead to a fundamental shift in our support for newspapers?

Hundreds Of Layoffs As Chicago Papers Come Together

AP | Posted 09.19.2011 | Media

CHICAGO — A Chicago Tribune printing facility will soon turn out editions of its longtime newspaper rival the Chicago Sun-Times. The Chicago Tr...

Time to Get Your Clark Kent On?

John Shore | Posted 09.05.2011 | Media

John Shore

In some very real ways, citizen journalists are the only journalists left. Nobody cares about local politics like local citizens. Nobody can. The adage is true for a reason; all politics is local.

As Western Papers Suffer, D.C. Bureaus Die Out

High Country News | Kate Sheppard | Posted 08.27.2011 | Denver

The Washington, D.C., office of the Salt Lake Tribune's Thomas Burr and Matt Canham resembles most newsrooms. A few pieces of art cling haphazardly to...

Another Huge Round Of Cuts At Gannett

AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 08.21.2011 | Media

SAN FRANCISCO — Newspaper publisher Gannett Co. is laying off 700 workers, or 2 percent of its work force, in the latest cutback triggered by a ...

Big Newspaper Chain Sees Hopeful Signs

AP | Posted 08.21.2011 | Media

NEW YORK — Newspaper publisher McClatchy Co. said Tuesday that its revenue isn't declining as much over the past two months. Its stock rose more...

Another Bad Quarter For Newspapers

AP | Posted 08.03.2011 | Media

NEW YORK — U.S. newspaper advertising revenue fell 7 percent during the first three months of the year. That left the industry's quarterly ad re...

Big Newspaper Chain Posts Bleak Quarterly Earnings

AP | Posted 06.26.2011 | Media

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — McClatchy Co., publisher of The Sacramento (Calif.) Bee, The Miami Herald and other newspapers, said Tuesday that it had a ...

New York Times Co. Earnings Tumble

AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 06.21.2011 | Media

The New York Times Co.'s first-quarter earnings fell 58 percent as a decline in print advertising revenue outweighed an increase in digital advertisin...

Big Newspaper Chain Posts Bleak Quarterly Earnings

AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 06.18.2011 | Media

A prolonged slide in Gannett Co.'s newspaper business overshadowed improvements in the company's broadcast and online operations as the publisher of U...