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  • Johnston Press reports more bad news

    Aug 27, 2008 | by Editor | Read | No Comments

    The worsening conditions for local newspapers in the UK were graphically illustrated by results from Johnston Press on Wednesday which showed a sharp fall in revenues and profits and a grim outlook for the rest of the year.The company, which publishes The Scotsman, the Yorkshire Post and a host of other local papers around the […]

  • July Ad Revenue Falls 16.2% at NYT Co. on Plunge in Classifieds

    Aug 26, 2008 | by Editor | Read | No Comments

    July advertising revenue at The New York Times Co. fell 16.2%, pushed by classified sales that plunged 30%, the company reported Tuesday.Total revenue from continuing operations dropped 10.1% compared with July 2007.
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  • ACN Receives AMEX Warning

    Aug 25, 2008 | by Editor | Read | No Comments

    Dallas-based American Community Newspapers (ACN) could become the fourth newspaper company kicked off a major stock exchange this year.In a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing late Friday, ACN disclosed it has been warned that it risks delisting from the American Stock Exchange (AMEX) for failing to file a 10-Q quarterly report with regulators. […]

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    Jarvis is wrong - conventions are worth covering
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    Jeff Jarvis recently wrote that sending 15,000 journalists to cover a convention is a “shameful waste” and that they are merely “staged events,” etc.  I find it ironic that in a year when bloggers and citizen journalists have more access at the conventions and more distribution power than ever, an apostle of CJ dismisses the […]

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    ‘Star Tribune’ Latest Paper Planning to Drop AP

    The Star Tribune of Minneapolis has become the latest, and so far the largest, daily newspaper to inform the Associated Press that it plans to drop the service in two years.MinnPost.com reports that the paper informed AP that it will no longer use the service as of the fall of 2010. AP requires that member […]

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    All About the News Business - Reports, Surveys, Sites

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    A New Model for News - from the Associated Press 
    Trends in Newsrooms Report (World Editors Forum)
    State of the News Media 2008
    Newspapers and the Net Forum
    Newspaper Next 2.0
    Journalism 2.0: How to Survive and Thrive
    Citizen Journalism and the BBC
    Citizen Media: Fad or the Future of News?
    Digital Rights Management and the Process […]

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    Project for Global Media Entrepreneurship »

    Photo: A new effort to foster media entrepreneurship around the world
    A new effort to foster media entrepreneurship around the world

    The character of the next era, far from inevitable, will likely depend heavily on the quality of leadership in the newsroom and boardroom… it will require renegades and risk-takers to break from the conventional path and create new directions… the transformation facing journalism is epochal, as momentous as the invention of television or the telegraph, […]

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    Using 2D barcodes for journalism

    Now before your eyes gloss over, let me explain how this impacts journalism. If a consumer has a camera-equipped phone and has the right software, which is readily available and typically free, s/he could scan a 2D Code using that mobile phone to get all kinds of information: coupons, parts of viral marketing campaigns, serialized […]

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    Audits & Plaudits »

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    Plaudits: Online News Assn - links to ‘08 awards finalists

    CHICAGO, August 4, 2008 - Finalists for the 9th annual Online Journalism Awards, which honor excellence in digital journalism, were announced today by the Online News Association (ONA). A team of journalists, representing a diverse cross-section of the industry, judged the contest during a two-day event in Chicago, August 1-2.The winners will be announced at […]

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