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The Gazette in Colorado Springs has laid off 11 employees, including seven in the newsroom, leaving fewer than 300 people on the staff.
Two veteran publishers said Friday they are prepared to launch a daily newspaper serving the Detroit area, where the two largest newspapers have reduced home delivery to survive in a struggling industry.
New Hampshire's decision to guarantee a line of credit to a struggling newspaper likely won't be the last such effort despite the questions it raises about independent coverage.
Pennsylvania's high court says the role of two accused judges in a $3.5 million defamation award against The Citizens' Voice of Wilkes-Barre warrants a new trial.
A judge Friday allowed Canada's insolvent media giant Canwest Global Communications to transfer the National Post into one of its divisions that is not under bankruptcy protection to stave off folding the unprofitable daily newspaper.
The Justice Department has cleared the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Inc. and Stephens Media LLC to combine their operations in northwest Arkansas, and the newly formed company will start publishing newspapers on Sunday.
A Michigan newspaper whose parent company recently emerged from bankruptcy reorganization is one of the top circulation gainers in an industry seeing broad declines locally and nationally.
The top 25 U.S. newspapers by average weekday and Sunday circulation from April through September. The percentage changes are from the same six-month span last year.
For the second day in a row, a hazardous materials team has gone to The Seattle Times after a suspicious envelope was found.
The New Haven Register is selling a rare extra edition announcing the arrest of a Yale University lab technician in the murder of a graduate student whose body was stuffed inside a wall on campus.
Stephens Media and WEHCO Media Inc. announced Thursday a joint venture that would merge two longtime competitive newspapers in fast-growing northwestern Arkansas.
The publisher of North America's biggest French-language newspaper, La Presse, said Thursday the publication may cease operations on Dec. 1 if the paper is unable to significantly cut costs.
The publisher of Nevada's largest newspaper said Tuesday he has met with U.S. Sen. Harry Reid since the Democratic majority leader told the newspaper's advertising director that he hopes it goes out of business.
Cost-cutting newspapers are losing many of their youngest reporters, editors and photographers at the same time publishers are trying to break some of their old habits and learn new tricks on the Internet.
Newspapers' financial woes worsened in the second quarter as advertising sales shrank by 29 percent, leaving publishers with $2.8 billion less revenue than they had at the same time last year.
A weekend fire that destroyed the building that housed The Anadarko Daily News didn't stop the newspaper from publishing on Monday.
Generic drug giant Mylan Inc. has sued the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette over stories based on internal documents that prompted a review by the Food and Drug Administration.
The writers' grievances came in the form of angry letters, carried over bumpy rural roads to the newspaper office serving the Amish community.
A southern Utah newspaper has rejected a gay California couple's wedding announcement, saying its policy is to publish announcements only for marriages legal under Utah law.
The San Diego Union-Tribune reports that 112 jobs are being cut at the newspaper, the second round of major layoffs since an ownership change in May.
A 121-year-old newspaper and an upstart rival published by its former employees have settled a federal lawsuit, ending an unusual battle over newspaper cutbacks.
The Daily Gazette of Schenectady will resume charging for online content after offering free access to most articles and photos since late 2007.
The parent company of The Salt Lake Tribune is donating editions of the paper from 1871 to 2003 to the University of Utah, which will conserve the fragile volumes and keep them available for public access.
The publisher of Boston's only black-owned newspaper says he'll accept a $200,000 loan from the city to avert the shutdown of the financially struggling weekly.
Family Feud: How Much Is Moon Church Conflict Driving Wash Times Turmoil?The Sunday firings of executives at the Washington Times and the possible exit of its top editor are apparently being driven more than previously known by last month's transfer of power of the Unification Church and associated business empire from Rev.
Who's your daddy? IIA journalist takes aim at her former employee & misfires, badly.
You can find news anywhere. North, East, West and South, news is available just about anywhere, anytime. The real trick is to report what that news means in a way that is relevant to the many.
Best local newspaper in Scotland makes history againThe Story of how the West Highland Free Press became Scotland's first employee owned newspaper
Newspapers seem to be less available each year. Newspaper boxes used to be outside many stores, on street corners, outside almost all restaurants. Lately they are much harder to find.
TheStar.com | World | British woman unites with long-lost Canadian siblingsA feel good news story... Meets siblings at Pearson after seeking Star's help in finding war vet father Oct 04, 2009 04:30 AM Leslie Scrivener
100,000 protest for press freedom in RomeThe masses gathered today in Rome to protest for the freedom of the press! "Accusations of an anti-Berlusconi bias have spiked since Rai 2 twice invited to its studios a call girl who claims to have accepted money to spend the night with the prime minister.
Just curious. With all the differing opinions, I was just wondering where everyone got their news. What is the FIRST place you turn to for news when you want to know what's going on in the world? Do you turn on the television or listen for the town crier?
Two Bangladeshi Papers Published "Onion" Article Reporting Neil Armstrong Acknowledging Moon Hoax: "We didn't know the Onion was not a real news site." Two Bangladeshi newspapers have apologised after publishing an article taken from a satirical US website which claimed the Moon landings were faked.
Las Vegas Publisher Stands By Claim That Reid Threatened EmployeeThe publisher of the Las Vegas Review-Journal on Tuesday stood by his claim that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid threatened one of the newspaper's employees, after Reid's office claimed the alleged threat was meant as a joke.
New York Hedge Fund Buys Creative Loafing ChainAtalaya Capital Management bid $5 million for the alt-weeklies in Atlanta, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Charlotte, N.C., and Sarasota and Tampa, Fla.
Ted Nugent Fired From The Waco, TX Tribune-Herald for Criticizing President ObamaJust got a missive — unguided missile? — from my pal Ted Nugent saying he's been fired by the Waco Tribune-Herald, which has new owners as of a couple of weeks ago.
Lessons from the Birmingham Eccentric: How one community is saving its newspaperA little blitz of good press for local news hit the blogs not so long ago: the Birmingham Eccentric, a 131-year-old newspaper based in suburban Detroit, was living up to its name. Owned by Gannett since 2005, the paper was slated for shutdown last spring.
Israel furious over Swedish newspaper articleIsrael and the Swedish Embassy responded furiously Wednesday to a Swedish newspaper article that suggested Israeli troops killed Palestinians and harvested their organs.
Plagiarizing poems A prisoners' newspaper at a U.K. jail may have to axe its poetry page if inmates don't stop plagiarizing poems in a bid to win a $37 prize.
Is Murdoch's Plan to Charge for Online News Doomed?Rupert Murdoch announced plans to charge for all online content of his newspaper and TV empire, in what is possibly the boldest move of any media mogul to boost revenue from online news.
Extra! Extra! Updates from our growing newspaper archivesLast September on this blog, we announced a new initiative to digitize newspapers and make them accessible and searchable online.
Guardian Media Group plots closure of Observer newspaperThe Guardian Media Group (GMG) is considering closing The Observer, the world's oldest Sunday newspaper, as part of a cost-cutting drive triggered by a drastic plunge in the group's finances.
DRM for news? Inside the AP's plan to "wrap" its contentThe Associated Press, reeling from the newspaper apocalypse, has a new plan to "wrap" and "protect" its content though a "digital permissions framework. But there's (way) less here than meets the eye.
Boston Globe Scrubs Henry Louis Gates Cambridge Police Arrest Report From Online ArticleThat Cambridge, MA police report presents such a damning picture of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates when he was arrested that an embarrassed Boston Globe felt it had to scrub it from its website after initially posting the report.
To young journalists and aspiring journalists who have a firm understanding of history, Walter Cronkite is a legend. His candor and truth, his unimpeachable standards a method worth aspiring to. To those unaware of Mr.
New York Times to decide how to charge for its website by AugustThe publisher of the New York Times will decide by next month how to charge readers for access to its website, reversing an earlier decision not to, and becoming the first major non-financial newspaper group to take the step.
Alaska Paper Digs Deeper Into Our story About Palin's DissemblingExcerpt: ""The indispensable Anchorage Daily News has now picked up our story on the big fib Sarah Palin told when justifying her decision to quit.
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