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Newspaper Comics Go Online With King Features Comics Kingdom

Editor & Publisher | Joe Strupp | Posted 11.18.2008 | Media


NEW YORK King Features Syndicate is launching a new service that allows Web sites to link to some 60 daily comic strips online and split ad revenue fr...

Is this 1988 or 2008?

Jennifer Donahue | Posted 11.18.2008 | Politics


Jennifer Donahue

The world does not know what to do with its primed intellect, having just covered the election of a lifetime. What now?

Murdoch Scolds "Misguided Cynics": "Newspapers Will Reach New Heights In 21st Century"

AP | ROHAN SULLIVAN | Posted 11.17.2008 | Media


SYDNEY, Australia — Global media magnate Rupert Murdoch says doomsayers who are predicting the Internet will kill off newspapers are "misguided ...

New York Times Shuts Down Sports Magazine Play

New York Times | Richard Perez Pena | Posted 11.17.2008 | Media


The New York Times has shut down its quarterly sports magazine, Play, officials at the paper and its parent company said on Monday, marking another in...

Rupert Murdoch's Conservative Image Challenged By Soft Treatment Of Barack Obama

New York Times | Richard Perez Pena | Posted 11.17.2008 | Media


Big, bright pictures, including a two-page poster, show the president-elect in poses ranging from warm and fuzzy to downright heroic. Headlines blare ...

American Press Institute: Read This Before Your Secret 'Crisis' Meeting

Maegan Carberry | Posted 11.11.2008 | Media


Maegan Carberry

The American Press Institute is huddled behind closed doors this week in crisis mode discussing how to save the deadwood editions that still turn a profit.

Tribune Company Loses $121M In Q3

AP | Posted 11.11.2008 | Media


CHICAGO — Tribune Co., owner of the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune, other newspapers and the Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field, said Monday ...

Why Didn't Obama's Run Help Chicago Newspapers?

Ad Age | Jeremy Mullman | Posted 11.10.2008 | Chicago


Barack Obama's resounding victory led to a run on newspapers around the country, but especially in Chicago, where giddy readers scrambled to grab keep...

Jared Kushner Discusses Future Of Newspapers, The New York Observer: "I'm Definitely Scared"

The Guardian | Tom Teodorczuk | Posted 11.10.2008 | Media


New York media types are not easily startled, but when Jared Kushner became the Big Apple's newest newspaper proprietor, more than a few eyebrows were...

Lincoln/Obama

Jeff Danziger | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics


Jeff Danziger

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Obama Will Win at Least 11 of 13 Key States -- Based on Newspaper Endorsements!

Greg Mitchell | Posted 11.03.2008 | Media


Greg Mitchell

Before you laugh too hard, consider this: In 2004, I did the same thing -- and picked 14 of the 15 tight races correctly, as well as the overall Bush win. Only missed on Florida (still waiting for that recount).

The Best Political Endorsement of 2008

Andrew Sargus Klein | Posted 10.31.2008 | Media


Andrew Sargus Klein

As an admitted Obama supporter, I still find it disheartening that editorial boards seem to reflect the politics they cover: vague boilerplate.

FAS-FAX: Most Major Newspapers Continue Circulation Decline

Editor & Publisher | Jennifer Saba | Posted 10.27.2008 | Media


NEW YORK For those holding out for some improvement in print circulation, this morning brings disappointment. The Audit Bureau of Circulations release...

Is There a Future for Newspapers?

Jack Myers | Posted 10.27.2008 | Business


Jack Myers

But newspapers have valuable assets that could enable them to recapture their local market dominance, if they act quickly and definitely.

Japan's Newspapers: Doomed But Going Strong

Washington Post | Blaine Harden | Posted 10.25.2008 | Business


Due to a shrinking population and an expanding Internet, the decline and fall of newspapers in Japan is all but guaranteed. "I am in a dying industry...

Star-Ledger Of Newark Cuts Newsroom By Nearly Half

AP | ANICK JESDANUN | Posted 10.25.2008 | Media


NEW YORK — The Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J., will reduce its newsroom staff by nearly half through voluntary buyouts as New Jersey's largest news...

How The New York Times Can Save Itself

Silicon Alley Insider | Henry Blodget | Posted 10.24.2008 | Business


The New York Times (NYT) is now running on fumes. S&P has downgraded the company's debt to junk, and Moodys is about to do the same. The stock has fal...

Gannett Stock Hits 18-Year Low

Editor And Publisher | Mark Fitzgerald | Posted 10.22.2008 | Media


On a bad day for newspaper stocks, shares of Gannett Co. (NYSE: GCI) sank Wednesday to their lowest price in 18 years. Gannett tumbled 11.25% during ...

Battle for the West: McCain Says He's Still Fighting in Colorado

Ryan Rivera | Posted 10.22.2008 | Home


Ryan Rivera

McCain operatives say rumors of their candidate's departure from the Centennial State are greatly exaggerated. CNN's John King reported on Monday that...

Obama's Newspaper Endorsements Crush McCain's Nearly Three-To-One (SLIDESHOW)

Huffington Post | Posted 10.20.2008 | Media


As of Monday, Editor and Publisher reports that the matchup of Obama-McCain newspaper endorsements is 112 to 39, or nearly three to one. Wikipedia h...

Slipping Backwards: The Loss of Two Journalists of Color at the Chicago Sun-Times Reflects the Growing Whitewashing of the News

Daniel Sinker | Posted 10.16.2008 | Media


Daniel Sinker

All the gumshoe reporters, "sticking up for the little guy" newspaper cliches apply: That was the Sun-Times.

Newspapers' Web Revenue Down

New York Times | Stephanie Clifford | Posted 10.13.2008 | Media


recast, are digesting another piece of bad news: the growth in online advertising they saw as their salvation has slowed to a crawl. In the last few ...

Uncreative Leveraging

Michael Sigman | Posted 10.09.2008 | Media


Michael Sigman

A friend who runs a printing plant told me half his clients are going under and the rest are struggling. But as he put it, "I can't subsidize the publishing business."

Los Angeles Times Expected To Layoff 75 Editorial Staffers

Variety | Cynthia Littleton | Posted 10.07.2008 | Media


The ax is still swinging at the Los Angeles Times. Word spread in journo circles on Monday that the newspaper is looking at axing another 75 editoria...

Newspapers Criticized For Running Ad For DVD About Radical Muslims

AP | ANICK JESDANUN | Posted 10.04.2008 | Media


NEW YORK — Newspapers that carried an advertising supplement in recent weeks containing a DVD critical of radical Muslims have faced complaints ...