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1. July 18, 2011 01:50 PM

   A Visualization of Newspapers’ History

   Stanford University team maps papers' progress throughout the West

   By Alysia Santo

   Did newspapers make the west, or did the west make newspapers? This is one of the questions that drives Geoff McGhee and his colleagues at The Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford. McGhee is part of a team of scholars, students, and journalists that is chronicling the state of the rural west, and one of their latest...

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2. August 25, 2011 05:22 PM

   And Then There Were Two

   Oakland Tribune and other Bay Area newspapers to consolidate

   By Alysia Santo

   Some forty journalists will lose their jobs in November, when the Bay Area News Group squeezes eleven community newspapers down to two. BANG announced Tuesday that it would fold The Contra Costa Times, San Ramon Valley Times, East County Times, Tri-Valley Herald, and San Joaquin Herald into a new paper called The Times, and merge The Oakland Tribune, Alameda Times-Star,...

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3. June 21, 2012 05:02 PM

   Audit Radio: Cleveland edition

   Dean Starkman joins a panel of Ohio journalists on the future of newspapers

   By Ryan Chittum

   Audit Chief Dean Starkman talked about the future of newspapers on Cleveland's NPR affiliate WCRN this morning. "Sound of Ideas" host Mike McIntyre talks to Dean, as well as Plain Dealer managing editor Thom Fladung, Tom Skoch, editor of the Lorain Morning Journal, Tim Smith, a Kent State journalism professor, and David Abbott, executive director of The George Gund Foundation....

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4. June 28, 2011 01:11 PM

   Confidence In TV News and Newspapers (Slightly) Up

   What’s Weiner got to do with it?

   By Joel Meares

   Some heartening news for those in the newspaper and TV News industries. Gallup’s annual poll of the public’s confidence in institutions has found that Americans’ confidence in newspapers and TV News is up on last year. Twenty-eight percent of those interviewed for the poll said they had a “great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in newspapers, compared...

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5. June 13, 2012 10:43 AM

   Heresy on the bayou (updated)

   Times-Picayune drops its restaurant critic

   By Brent Cunningham

   More than the news that it would no longer publish every day; more than the rumor that those left in the newsroom will be compensated, in part, based on the traffic their stories generate; more than the dismay of learning that industry “upheaval,” as one newsroom executive put it, could decimate an outlet that Hurricane Katrina could not… The news...

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6. July 18, 2012 06:50 AM

   In Egypt, new newspapers and old problems

   Citizens need good journalism to explain confusing times, but many Egyptians don't trust their media

   By Jared Malsin

   CAIRO, EGYPT — Egyptian newsstands today offer a lively range of options, including three government-owned papers, papers affiliated with political parties, and several privately-owned papers, some of which sprung up since the 2011 uprising that toppled President Hosni Mubarak. Since only 30 percent of Egyptians have access to the Internet, according to 2011 figures, newspapers, along with television and radio,...

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7. August 13, 2012 10:58 AM

   Media restrictions tighten in Ethiopia

   One of the last remaining independent newspapers was recently shuttered by the government

   By Mohammed Ademo

   Government charges against one of Ethiopia’s last remaining independent newspaper editors on Friday and a recent forced shutdown of that paper’s presses capped a grim month of media repression in a country already deemed one of the most restrictive in the world by press freedom advocates. On August 1, 12 days after authorities shuttered Feteh and seized 30,000 printed copies...

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8. December 22, 2011 01:01 PM

   New Investment Company Buys Chicago Sun Times

   By Alysia Santo

   A digitally focused company has purchased an old media standard. Sun-Times Media Holdings, owner of The Chicago Sun-Times and over forty other media ventures, has been sold to a newly formed investment group called Wrapports LLC. The announcement was made late Wednesday evening, and while details of the arrangement have not yet been revealed, it’s been reported that the price...

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9. June 27, 2012 06:50 AM

   News Corp. ponders a split

   Easing but not erasing the Murdoch discount

   By Ryan Chittum

   Shareholders have been carping for years that Rupert Murdoch should get rid of his newspapers and focus on the real moneymakers. So word that he's seriously considering that sent the company's shares up sharply yesterday, rolling back some of the longstanding "Murdoch discount" that has caused News shares to trade far below their intrinsic value. The market thought Murdoch splitting...

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10. August 9, 2011 02:38 PM

    Populism on the Potomac

    Is anyone in DC reporting for the people?

    By The Editors

    On Sunday, Washington Post ombudsman Patrick Pexton presented a plan for the paper he's charged with watching. His stirring proposal? The Post should redefine its audience and write hard-hitting work that serves the needs of the majority of Americans who live and work outside the Beltway, but whose lives are subject to Washington's politicians and their whims. As Greg Marx...

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11. July 22, 2011 08:14 PM

    The NYT Paywall Is Out of the Gate Fast

    281,000 paying digital subscribers in three months show readers will pay for quality news

    By Ryan Chittum

    The Wall Street Journal has long had a successful online paywall. The Financial Times has one, too. We can confidently say now that The New York Times will be the third major newspaper success. The Times Company as a whole had poor second-quarter earnings yesterday, with print ads continuing to decline and digital ads weighed down by a terrible performance...

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12. March 16, 2012 02:16 AM

    The NAA Newspaper Numbers

    By Ryan Chittum

    Alan Mutter looks at the 2011 numbers out of the Newspaper Association of America, which he notes were "quietly published." There's nothing to trumpet here. Print ads tumbled another 9 percent last year. That's a sixty-year low, down two-thirds in a bit over a decade in real terms. Mutter: The combined ad sales for all the newspapers in the United...

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13. April 20, 2012 05:14 PM

    The NYT Goes Backward on Digital Ads

    By Ryan Chittum

    The New York Times Company's first quarter earnings, reported yesterday, left a lot to be desired. About.com, the company's web-only content farm, continues to crater, weighing down the newspapers. It lost nearly a a quarter of its revenue and half its earnings from the same period last year. The NYT's New England unit, primarily The Boston Globe, saw revenue fall...

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14. June 6, 2012 06:50 AM

    The Sometimes Picayune

    Want to damage New Orleans (again)? Decimate its newspaper

    By Harry Shearer

    Here, for your reading pleasure, are two familiar cliches: 1. New Orleans is a unique city. 2. The newspaper business is changing. Several days ago, when it was announced that The Times-Picayune would get out of the daily print newspaper business, the second cliche kicked the first one’s ass. This makes no sense to me. There’s more to that first...

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15. July 25, 2011 12:09 PM

    Tracing the Hacking Scandal’s Medieval Roots

    The (mis-) education of the British Empire’s Boy Reporters

    By Arthur Jones

    Mr. Hinton joined Mr. Murdoch’s first paper, The News, in Adelaide, at age 15.... The New York Times, July 16, 2011 Too young to drink. Too young to drive. Too young to vote. But not too young to write sexy (or otherwise exciting) stories for The News of the World, or anyone else, if the editors would take them. This...

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16. May 18, 2012 01:26 PM

    What Warren Buffett sees in local newspapers

    Despite it all, small papers can still turn a profit

    By Justin Peters

    On Thursday, Warren Buffett announced he will spend $142 million to purchase 63 local and regional newspapers from the Richmond, Virginia-based Media General chain--and the Berkshire Hathaway chairman says he's ready to buy more. "Any time we can add properties we like, to management we like, at a price we like, we're ready to go,” Buffett told the Omaha World-Herald,...

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