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Death of Newspapers

Two More Staffers Resign From Village Voice

The Huffington Post | Katherine Fung | Posted 05.20.2013 | Media

Two more Village Voice staffers — food critic Tejal Rao and staff writer Nick Pinto — announced their resignations on Monday. "I've resigned f...

Newspapers Celebrate Losing Money More Slowly

AP | Posted 04.08.2013 | Media

ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — The newspaper industry's revenue declined at its slowest pace in six years, as publishers turned to new businesses and raised ...

Daily Variety Goes Out Of Print

Reuters | Posted 05.20.2013 | Media

By Steve Gorman and Brandon Lowrey LOS ANGELES, March 19 (Reuters) - The venerable Hollywood trade magazine Daily Variety published it...

Paper Is Not Dead! (VIDEO)

Posted 03.18.2013 | MarloThomas

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8 Suggestions to Save the Washington Post

Kyle Hutzler | Posted 05.13.2013 | DC
Kyle Hutzler

If the Washington Post does not start thinking and acting like a national paper, it will die the inevitable death of a regional one.

Warren Buffett On Buying Tribune Papers: 'No Thanks'

AP | JOSHUA FREED | Posted 05.04.2013 | Media

Warren Buffett has been buying newspapers recently but says he's not interested in the big papers owned by Tribune Co. Buffett spoke about his recent...

Paywalls Are Working, According To Publishers

Poynter. | Posted 02.20.2013 | Media

Four top publishers Tuesday reaffirmed their commitment to print and discussed revenue ideas for bolstering their products. The discussion was part o...

Journalists Vote For Possible Strike At The Guardian

Posted 04.07.2013 | Media

Journalists at the Guardian and the Obsever have voted overwhelmingly for a possible strike. The British papers, which are jointly owned by the Gua...

Washington Post Considers Major Change

The Washington Post | Hayley TsukayamaĀ  | Posted 02.01.2013 | Media

The Washington Post Co. executives are considering relocating the company from its 63-year-old headquarters in downtown Washington, exploring the sale...

NYT Lays Off 'Far Fewer People' Than It Expected

The Huffington Post | Jack Mirkinson | Posted 03.31.2013 | Media

New York Times editor Jill Abramson told staffers on Monday that the paper's aggressive buyout program resulted in "far fewer layoffs" than she antici...

New Bad Things

The European Magazine | Posted 03.26.2013 | World
The European Magazine

Instead of lamenting the death of old legacy papers, journalists should confront the challenges ahead of them. It's time to reconsider a public funding scheme.

New York Times Buyout Deadline Is Here

The Huffington Post | Jack Mirkinson | Posted 03.26.2013 | Media

The deadline for buyouts -- and possible layoffs -- at the New York Times is fast approaching (see update below). The paper is looking for 30 staff...

Top New York Times Editor Stepping Down

The Huffington Post | Jack Mirkinson | Posted 03.20.2013 | Media

John Geddes, a longtime managing editor at the New York Times, has taken a buyout and will be stepping down in a few months, the paper reported Friday...

More Newspaper Layoffs Coming

nj.com | Star | Posted 01.16.2013 | Media

NEWARK -- The jobs of 34 Star-Ledger employees -- including nearly 10 percent of the newsroom -- are being eliminated in the first large-scale layoffs...

Layoffs Approaching At NY Times

The Huffington Post | Jack Mirkinson | Posted 03.13.2013 | Media

New York Times editor Jill Abramson has been "begging" with senior editors at the paper to step down, New York magazine reported Friday. The Times ...

New Buyer Emerges For Tribune

AP | ELLIOT SPAGAT | Posted 02.26.2013 | Media

SANTA ANA, Calif. — The publisher of the Orange County Register said Thursday that at an investor group he leads may want to buy Tribune Co.'s n...

Journalism Industry Reels From Week Of Cuts

The Huffington Post | Jack Mirkinson | Posted 02.06.2013 | Media

The holiday season is proving to be a bitter time for many in the journalism industry, as a wave of layoffs and buyouts hits publication after publica...

Deborah Blum, Master of Reinvention

Bill Lucey | Posted 01.26.2013 | Media
Bill Lucey

For those troubled about the rapid crumbling of the daily newspaper and the end of serious journalism, Blum points out that the industry is actually in a state of evolution, not decline.

Washington Post Reports Profit

AP | Posted 01.03.2013 | Media

WASHINGTON — The Washington Post Co.'s stock jumped 5 percent Friday after the company reported a third-quarter profit, reversing a loss from th...

Hard Leads and Twitter Memes: The Making of News

Lindsay Hoffman | Posted 12.19.2012 | College
Lindsay Hoffman

We are looking at what could be a shoot-out -- Wild, Wild West style. On one side stands a band of columnists, investigative reporters, newscasters and other traditional journalists. On the opposing side, a mob of bloggers, YouTubers, and Twitter-sensations.

Do You Still Read Print Publications? (POLL)

Posted 10.19.2012 | MarloThomas

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New Orleans Newspaper War Brewing

AP | KEVIN McGILL | Posted 11.28.2012 | Media

NEW ORLEANS — When The Times-Picayune decided to print three days a week, a nearby publication saw a chance to expand in the newspaper's backyar...

Online News Threatening TV Domination

The Huffington Post | Jack Mirkinson | Posted 11.27.2012 | Media

The inevitable dominance of online media is quickly becoming a reality, a new Pew survey showed on Thursday. The organization's biennal study of Am...

Two More Papers End Daily Printing

www.poynter.org | Posted 10.28.2012 | Media

The Harrisburg, Pa., Patriot-News, which won a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the Penn State scandal, and The Syracuse, N.Y., Post-Standard are fo...

Ford Needs a Smarter Approach to Newspaper Grants

Pablo Eisenberg | Posted 08.14.2012 | Media
Pablo Eisenberg

If the newsroom needed extra help, this responsibility should have fallen on the owners of the paper. Why did a foundation reward a publication that has shown an inexcusable disregard for its reporters and editors, not to mention readers?