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Paywalls Come Tumbling Down 19 Aug 2013 | 06:50 pm
The San Francisco Chronicle is removing its paywall after just four months and the Dallas Morning News plans to follow suit. Observers are speculating that this could be the end of the nearly two-year...
AOL Expected to Gut Patch Network 9 Aug 2013 | 04:59 pm
Several news outlets are reporting that AOL will shut down one-third of its Patch network of hyperlocal news sites and lay off about 300 people today. Newsday says AOL will close about 300 of its 900 ...
Billionaires Buy in Big 6 Aug 2013 | 08:51 pm
New media tycoon Jeff Bezos (Image via CrunchBase) History may well mark the typically somnambulant first week of August, 2013 as the week that forever changed the U.S. newspaper industry. In a stu...
Red Sox Owner Henry Buys Boston Globe 3 Aug 2013 | 07:08 pm
Four years of turmoil appear to be nearing an end in Boston with news that billionaire financier and Red Sox owner John Henry will buy the Globe for $70 million. The deal came quickly after Henry’s b...
A Good List of College Newspapers 2 Aug 2013 | 05:10 pm
Journalism Degree.org just posted a list of 100 Exemplary College Newspapers for Journalism Students. The ranking isn’t in any particular order and there’s no explanation of what methodology (if any)...
A Bold Investment Strategy Shows Signs of Paying Off 25 Jul 2013 | 08:07 pm
Freedom Communications’ Aaron Kushner (photo by Jebb Harris, Orange County Register). “California newspaper defies industry wisdom to stay alive – and prospers” declares The Guardian in an analysis o...
Publisher Threatens to Close Newark Star-Ledger 28 Jun 2013 | 02:00 am
The ax is falling again at Advance Publications. The company that cut back frequencies in rapid succession at its once-daily newspapers in New Orleans, Syracuse, Cleveland and, most recently, Portlan...
Frequency Cuts Don’t Work, Says Columnist 23 Jun 2013 | 07:33 pm
How are the experiments in reduced frequency that began in Detroit more than four years ago and have since spread to Cleveland, Syracuse, New Orleans and now Portland working out? Not so well, says au...
Oregonian is Latest Major Metro Daily to Cut Frequency 21 Jun 2013 | 05:50 pm
Continuing a newspaper industry tradition of burying bad news about its business, The Oregonian announced that it will scale back home-delivery frequency from seven to four days a week. The news is t...
How a Tiny Nonprofit Won a Pulitzer 12 Jun 2013 | 02:54 am
Infographic from InsideClimateNews series on the Dilbit oil spill Editor & Publisher has details on InsideClimate News and the “ambitious, in-depth investigative series that began as a fluke,” win...
