The Bell Tolls For Newspapers? Think Tank Says The Day Is Almost Here

Who really reads the paper anymore?  I am really not the one to ask, as I am an online journalist who wants you to read your news online (Disclaimer: If it were up to me everyone would ... Read >

Family Circus Creator Bil Keane Dead At 89

The first Family Circus cartoon debut on February 29, 1960 and has run continuously since that time and it will now carry-on without it's creator Bil Keane who passed away this week at the age of 89. ... Read >

Newspaper Thefts Blamed On TLC’s ‘Extreme Couponing’ Reality TV Series

Extreme couponing has become a buzz term ever since TLC's Extreme Couponing debuted in April 2011 but it hasn't come without it's consequences, for example some stores have had to revise their coupon policies, while some locations have ... Read >

‘News of the World’ Staffers Publish Revenge Crossword in Last Issue

News International's CEO Rebecca Brooks brought in some extra help to ensure the 200 disgruntled staffers at News of the World didn't sneak any defamatory, libelous or otherwise untoward statements into the tabloid's final issue. The paper, which ... Read >

The best response yet to the New York Times paywall, from a Canadian of course

When I came across the news this morning that The New York Times had finally put up its paywall subscription my first reaction was - oh well no more quoting the NYTimes anymore. Then I read some numbers ... Read >

The cost of Murdoch’s paywall experiment? 90% of The Times traffic.

Way to go Rupert. Not only are your reporters pissed at the drop in traffic but your advertisers are leaving in droves. All because you knew better than the rest of the web and put everything behind a ... Read >

Wire: Death of Newspapers by 2022, says Leading Media Futurist

Sydney, Australia (Inquisitr Wire): “By 2022 newspapers as we know them will be irrelevant in Australia,” says leading media futurist Ross Dawson. “However the leading newspaper publishers of today may have transformed themselves to thrive in what ... Read >

Newspapers, assimilate!

I laughed at first, but then I remembered that sometimes I tell the driver of the car to "scroll up" if I want to see something out of view. [via Neatorama] Read >

A FAIL that is actually the ultimate #WIN

Fail.org is well known for some of the funniest images of fail on the Web except every once in a while their FAILs can actually be great WINs as in this case. In this case we see ... Read >

Is the iPad the beginning of a second class Web?

So, the iPad is here. No more speculation. The gushing - and the bashing - has commenced as was totally expected. The news organizations are claiming that their salvation has arrived courtesy of Steve Jobs having a ... Read >

Our online media world is beginning to look like .. well .. our offline media world

One of the biggest things that both the freetard and the Web 2.0 warm and fuzzy crowd have been trying to implant in our heads is that the future of media is online and it will be ... Read >

So, is the iPad the savior the newspapers hoped for?

In the run-up to today's announcement of the iPad by Steve Jobs there was some quiet rumbling in the newspaper industry that this could be the magical moment they were looking for. Some believed that the iPad ... Read >

Old Media Takes A Beating As New Media Sites Grow In November

Old media websites took a beating in November as traffic to new media sites grew, according to new figures from Nielsen Online. In the top five news sites online, CNN saw a drop in traffic vs the same ... Read >

Microsoft tells news moguls – you’re on your own

More than a little bit of a fuss was raised not long ago when word came that Microsoft was trying to cozy up to news industry titans like News Corp suggesting that they might consider encouraging them ... Read >

Why Is Google Playing Silly Buggers With Newspapers?

Among the hue and cry of the irrational newspaper industry, Google is adding to the newspapers' argument by playing silly buggers with them at the moment. On one hand, Google CEO Eric Schmidt is calling foul on newspapers, ... Read >

What newspapers can learn from New Zealand’s NBR paywall – FAIL!

In July New Zealand's National Business Review (NBR) decided to jump the curve and put all its content behind a paywall - the same thing that people like Rupert Murdoch and other news media moguls are recommending. NBR ... Read >

Isn’t it nice to know that news editors think we’re useless asshats

The biggest part of the argument that newspapers are putting forth for pulling out of Google's search index is that Google is profiting by stealing their content. Now I won't bother repeating ad nauseam just how stupid ... Read >

The stupid line-up continues to grow as more newspapers commit to following Murdoch

Yesterday I wrote here at The Inquisitr about how stupid I thought the idea of Microsoft paying News Corp to pull its media properties from Google's search index. Of course this is something that Rupert Murdoch; the ... Read >

The coming world of the multimedia journalist

We hear the scare tactics everyday. The news industry is tanking and the only way to save it is by returning to putting everything behind the paywall or instituting some sort of micro-payment schemes. News can't survive ... Read >

Mainstream Media’s Death – Pending

Everyone has seen it coming but those effected by it:  the mainstream media has been in a long, slow slide that will inevitably end in its death, and they have long since decried this as outrageous – ... Read >

The fallacy of using “the public’s right to know” to support traditional media

It is a well accepted fact that once survival instincts kick in we will use anything and say anything in order to survive. This isn't an instinct just regulated to men and woman as we have seen ... Read >

An open letter to President Obama – Stay out of the newspaper business

See that slippery slope over there? That’s the slope you will slide down President if you even consider any legislation to “rescue” the newspaper industry. It is a never ending slope that will ... Read >