Newspapers

Only 10 Percent Of Editors Consider Foreign News "Very Essential" To Their Papers

New York Times | RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA | Posted 07.21.2008 | Media

Read More: Foreign News, Foreign News in Newspapers, Newspaper Industry, Newspaper Troubles, Newspapers Decline, Newspapers, Media News

Almost two-thirds of American newspapers publish less foreign news than they did just three years ago, nearly as many print less national news, and de...

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Selling Your Old Media Now: Internet Whiz Says To Get Out

DealBook | Posted 07.15.2008 | Business

Read More: Television Industry, Newspapers, Marc Andreesen, Looking Around the Corner to the Future, Film Industry, Old Media Death Watch, Sun Valley, Newspaper Industry, Old Media, Business News

Internet pioneer Marc Andreessen, who now runs the social networking site Ning, kept up his death watch for old media Wednesday morning. In a morning...

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Sam's LA Times and Sam's LA Bagels

Marty Kaplan | Posted 07.14.2008 | Media

Read More: Sam's Bagels, Los Angeles Times, Newspapers, Print Journalism, Newspaper Industry, Sam Zell, Media News
Marty Kaplan

What's the difference between Sam Zell's Los Angeles Times and Sam's Bagels on Los Angeles' Larchmont Boulevard? None, if you take Mr. Zell's words to heart.

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Con Games: Code Friedman

Michael Conniff | Posted 07.08.2008 | Media

Read More: Newspapers, Thomas Friedman, Aspen, Aspen Ideas Festival, Books, David Halberstam, Thomas Friedman Suck on This, Media News
Michael Conniff

Something has happened to Thomas Friedman: he has started to believe his own bullsh*t. A fatal flaw has crept into Friedman's reporting that borders on journalistic megalomania.

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Los Angeles Times To Cut 150 Staffers

Radar | Posted 07.02.2008 | Media

Read More: Los Angeles Times, Tribune Company, Newspapers, Russ Stanton, Media News

The Los Angeles Times announced 150 editorial layoffs--on both print and Web, according to a memo just sent by Russ Stanton. The layoffs will be compl...

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Newspapers' Worst Year Ever For Ad Revenue

New York Times | Richard Perez Pena | Posted 06.23.2008 | Media

Read More: Newspapers, Newspaper Ad Revenue, 2008 Newspaper Industry, Newspaper Industry, Media News

For newspapers, the news has swiftly gone from bad to worse. This year is taking shape as their worst on record, with a double-digit drop in advertisi...

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The Liberal Bias Newspaper Snipe Hunt

John McQuaid | Posted 06.17.2008 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, Liberal Bias, Newspapers, The Record, The Record Liberal Bias, Newspaper Industry, Media News
John McQuaid

The problems we face today don't fit well into the "liberal vs. conservative" culture-war frame. And the editor of a daily newspaper shouldn't have to investigate himself. For six months.

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Midwest Editors Shifting On Gay Marriage

Dan Treul | Posted 06.17.2008 | Home

Read More: Des Moines Register, Iowa, Midwest Politics, Newspapers, California, St. Louis, Ohio, Media, Journalism, California Supreme Court, Cleveland Plain Dealer, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Des Moines, Gay Rights, Chicago Tribune, Midwest, Cleveland, Chicago, Missouri, Supreme Court, Illinois, Michigan, Media Trends, Gay Marriage, Advocacy, Midwest Conservativism, Midwest Gay Rights, Gay Midwest, Home News
Dan Treul

In another signal, perhaps, that the country is ready for change, newspapers across the Midwest showed either even-handedness or excitement for an issue that only years ago was considered taboo.

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Did Obama's Triumph Over Hillary Drown Out News Of Tony Rezko's Conviction?

Huffington Post | Adam Rose | Posted 06.05.2008 | Media

Read More: Newspapers, Clinton, Obama, Tony Rezko, Rezko, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Media News

Hillary Clinton's willingness to concede the Democratic nomination to Barack Obama dominated the front page today in newspapers nationwide, but news t...

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Wal-Mart Launches Web Classifieds to Compete with Craigslist

Slate | Chadwick Matlin | Posted 06.04.2008 | Media

Read More: Walmart, Wal-Mart, Craigslist, Newspapers, Classifieds, Walmart Classified, Media News

Wal-Mart doesn't know it yet, but it may be the savior that local newspapers have been praying for. The big-box retailer launched a new service withou...

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Can Newspapers Be Saved?

John McQuaid | Posted 05.27.2008 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, Newspapers, Tribune Company, Journalism, Blogs, New Media, Web Journalism, Blog Journalism, Media News
John McQuaid

Papers have to protect and nourish two things they already have -- reporting and the newspaper "brand." Original voices and journalistic credibility are pretty much all papers have left.

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Carrie Bradshaw Is the Harbinger of Death

Daniel Holloway | Posted 05.20.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Entertainment, Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City, Debt, Wages, Movies, Sarah Jessica Parker, Newspapers, Satc, Age Demographics, Sex and the City: The Movie, Entertainment News
Daniel Holloway

I now look forward to Carrie Bradshaw's big screen debut about as much as I look forward to the day when I arrive in hell and am told David Spade is my roommate.

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Newspaper Business Flourishing In Developing World

New York Times | Heather Timmons | Posted 05.20.2008 | Media

Read More: Newspapers, Newspaper Business, Newspapers Mumbai, Newspapers India, Media News

NEW DELHI -- While gloom haunts the newspaper industry in the United States and Europe, the business is flourishing in much of the developing world. ...

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That vs. Who: The Politics of Linguistics

Carol Maric | Posted 05.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Sexism, Psychology, News, War, Bias, Extremism, Media, Technology, Nationalism, Cognitive Science, Law, Journalists, Computers, Philosophy, Politicians, Genocide, Human Rights, Germany, Linguistics, Politics, Gender, United States, God, Globalization, Journalism, Internet, George Bush, Destruction, Catastrophe, Subjectivity, Generalizations, Objectivity, Republicanism, Osama Bin Laden, Nazism, Grammar, Words, Newspapers, Stress, World Politics, Physics, Science, Information, Workplace, Freedom, Autonomy, Health, C.I.A., Independence, Presidents, Religion, Corruption, 911, 9/11, Terrorism, World Trade Center, Gulf War, Oil, Critical Theory, Saddam Hussein, Essay, Politics News
Carol Maric

I Object! Or is that Subject? This was my first reaction to the common linguistic objectification of sentient beings which has become pervasive in America.

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Candidate Webcast Stars Signal Way Ahead For Newspapers

Rachel Sterne | Posted 05.01.2008 | Home

Read More: Obama, Clinton, Indiana, Groundreport, Newspapers, Webcast Indianapolis Star, Webcasts, Webcast Clinton, Clinton Indy Star, Webcast Obama, Candidates Webcasts, Newspapers Live Coverage, Political Coverage, Democratic Nomination Newspapers, Home News
Rachel Sterne

During this political race newspaper webcasts are succeeding-- and telling a story. Obama's web presence feeds the webcasts. He brought in tens of thousands of surfers in Indiana; Clinton a few hundred.

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Online Moguls To Feast on $42 Billion Newspaper Ad Pie

Henry Blodget | Posted 04.30.2008 | Media

Read More: Newspapers, Newspaper Ads, Print Journalism, Digital Advertising, Newspaper Industry, New Media, Online Journalism, Media News
Henry Blodget

After another jarring 3.5% decline over the past six months, print-paper circulation will drop to about 50 million this year -- the lowest level since 1946.

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Is This the Last Newspaper Stand?

James Boyce | Posted 04.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Huffington Post, Newsladder, Boston Globe, Newspapers, Print Journalism, Newspaper Industry, New York Times, Media News
James Boyce

Every six months, the large city newspapers are reporting circulation declines of 3% to 8% and the cumulative effect of those declines is stark, and foretells the coming end of the newspaper era.

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Surprise: New York Times Circulation Plunges, Wall Street Journal Gains

Greg Mitchell | Posted 04.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Circulation, Newspapers, Media News
Greg Mitchell

One victim of decreased circulation -- thanks partly to popular websites like Huffington Post -- is the New York Times, which reports a whopping 9.2% decline on Sundays and 3.8% daily.

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Murdoch & Zell: Why are These Men Smiling?

Tom Teicholz | Posted 04.24.2008 | Media

Read More: The Wall Street Journal, Rupert Murdoch, Newspapers, Media, The Tribune Company, Sam Zell, Media News
Tom Teicholz

Sam Zell may get an amazing price for Newsday as Murdoch looks to add to his empire.

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See America's Fastest Dying Industries

Forbes | JOSHUA ZUMBRUN and BRIAN WINGFIELD | Posted 04.17.2008 | Business

Read More: Dying Industries, Finance, Labor Department, Finanacial Sector, Bowling, Housing Downturn, Apparel Manufacturers, Housing Crisis, Newspaper Industry, Newspapers, Business News

If you're being affected by the downturn in housing or financial services, hang in there. At some point, those industries will rebound. Others should ...

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Is Content Worthless?

Jonathan Handel | Posted 04.11.2008 | Media

Read More: Newspapers, Ad Revenue, Piracy, Hollywood, Economics, User Generated Content, Content, Media News
Jonathan Handel

Content may be king, but, ironically, its perceived value today is being driven towards zero. In the eyes of consumers, content is becoming a commodity.

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Pentagon Censoring Reporters As Guantanamo Trials Near

McClatchy | Posted 04.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Journalists, Pentagon, Newspapers, Warwire, Pentagon Censor Reporters, Iraq War, Military Censor Reporters, Guantanamo, Media and Guantanamo, Reporters, Politics News

A defense lawyer lets slip at the war court convening here that a battlefield commander changed an Afghanistan firefight report in a way that seemed t...

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No Shame, No Blame -- Media Refuse to Face Up to Role in Iraq Disaster

Greg Mitchell | Posted 04.02.2008 | Media

Read More: Iraq War, Newspapers, Warwire, War, New York Times, Reporters, Media, 4000, Bush, Media News
Greg Mitchell

The media, with months to plan for the five-year commemoration of the war, were ready to take stock of everything but themselves.

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The Day Iraq Became Vietnam

Greg Mitchell | Posted 03.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Newspapers, Warwire, Vietnam, War, Iraq, Rumsfeld, Media, President Bush, Bush, Politics News
Greg Mitchell

Five years ago today, a NYT photograph seemed like a cruel joke, or a Photoshop prank, awakening nearly everyone in America to the bone-chilling reality of a quick war that was threatening to turn into a longer slog.

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How Would Watergate Be Reported Today?

Art Brodsky | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Watergate, Media, Journalism, Newspapers, A.J. Liebling, Dewey Defeats Truman, Bob Woodward, New Yorker, Mary Mapes, Joseph McCarthy, Dan Rather, Cbs, Eric Alterman, Pentagon Papers, Edward R. Murrow, Media News
Art Brodsky

Until people regain trust in what they read, the long, slow decline will continue regardless of the medium through which information is conveyed.

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