Ah good old Rupert Murdoch the king of News Corp decides to share with us his prognostications about where newspapers could end up 10 years down the road. The short form for those of ...
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A lot of attention is paid to the floundering newspaper industry when the big name papers start talking about shutting down. When it comes to the news lifeblood of small town America not much ...
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Glenn Greenwald at Salon has an excellent article up on "The Myth of the Parasitic Bloggers." We normally wouldn't lead a post with a direct link and a reading recommendation, but if you're interested in the current ...
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The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is preparing to launch new guidelines that will legally force disclosure on blog posts that involve "compensation" to the blogger writing it.
The guidelines, coming primarily in response to paid posting, are ...
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Inspired by Brian Mitchell
Dear Editor
The parasitic nature of newspapers continues to confound most reasonable public relations (PR) professionals. Here we have an industry that by its very nature trades off the hard work of the PR industry, ...
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In an otherwise mostly funny roast at the annual White House Correspondents Dinner in Washington DC Saturday evening (May 9), President Barack Obama ended on a serious note, pledging his undying support for journalists and specifically newspapers.
President ...
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Rupert Murdoch, the man behind News Corp, says that it’s time to fix a “malfunctioning” business model when it comes to online news – specifically his newspapers. To do this he is expected to ...
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The New York Times Company will notify federal authorities Monday that its plans to shut down the Boston Globe after negotiations with Unions failed to deliver desired cuts.
According to reports, The Boston Globe will cease publication within ...
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I might not be the biggest Google fan around but there are some arguments used against the search giant that, even at face value, are ridiculous. Such is the case with the fight between ...
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Even with all the dire warnings of newspapers failing and ad revenues declining there has been good news from the latest Nielsen figures. In the first quarter of this year newspaper sites have attracted ...
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Failed 2004 Democrat Presidential Candidate Senator John Kerry will focus hearings of the US Senate Commerce Committee next week on the state of the newspaper industry.
Kerry said in a letter to the Boston Globe, which is under ...
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The Pulitzer Prizes for 2009 have been announced, with the New York Times topping the winners list with five recipients.
The New York Times won the Pulitzer Prizes for investigative journalism, breaking news, international reporting, feature photography and ...
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Following in the footsteps of former East Valley Tribune and Rocky Mountain News writers, over a dozen former staff members of the Seattle PI have started a new online only news site.
The Seattle PostGlobe is focused on ...
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In a world where newspapers are having a hard time staying relevant it doesn’t help when one of your major stars becomes more of an embarrassing liability, at least as far as the editorial department ...
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The Associated Press (AP) have issued a cease and desist against an AP affiliate radio station over the station embedding official AP videos offered for embedding on YouTube.
AP said in its C&D to WTNQ-FM 104.9 in Lafollete, ...
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The Associated Press (AP) has declared war on news aggregators and bloggers, in what could be the last stand for the newspaper industry.
In a speech at the AP General Meeting, AP Chairman Dean Singleton told the ...
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The New York Times Company has threatened to shut the Boston Globe if employee unions don't agree to broadscale cuts of pay and conditions.
The cuts, that will save the struggling paper $20 million a year, includes pay ...
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The Sun-Times Media Group filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Tuesday. The Sun-Times Group runs 59 newspapers across the country, including the Chicago Sun-Times.
The company is now looking at either selling some of its assets or trying ...
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A new round of layoffs at the Hearst owned Houston Chronicle will see 12%, or approximately 200-220 workers lose their jobs.
Publisher Jack Sweeney said in a statement that the cuts were due to the general troubles of ...
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Four newspapers in Michigan are cutting out their daily print editions and shifting to less cost-intensive schedules. One is shutting down completely and being replaced with a new online-driven alternative.
The Ann Arbor News, in publication for 174 ...
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174 year old Michigan newspaper Ann Arbor News will cease daily publication and switch to a primarily online only operation.
Owner Advance Publications made the announcement Monday, saying that the paper had experienced "deep" loses since 2008. ...
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A study by the Pew Research Center has found that many people in the United States couldn't care less if their local newspaper closed.
Fewer than half of Americans (43%) say that losing their local newspaper would ...
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