Good News, Bad News for Papers
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Although print circulation continues falling, major American newspapers are experiencing a healthy rise in traffic to their websites. Most encouraging: The web editions are attracting a younger audience.
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There's a blizzard of criticism in Scandinavian papers and German papers grapple with low birth rates
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The publisher of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, The Tampa Tribune and Winston-Salem Journal said softness in its publishing division hit second-quarter results.
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Two new papers examine the causes and effects of this Augustâs unwinding in the financial markets.
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A strology does not come easy to a rational newspaper like The Independent.
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A roundup includes new-issue hits, misses, and no-shows.
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By Crystal Neo, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo.  Jun. 20--When Melissa Jenkins received an e-mail from a Columbia-based company promising cheap magazines, she thought she had chanced upon a really good deal.
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By Frank Michael Russell, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Sep. 10--Here's a quick rundown of news you may have missed last week, culled from reports by our staff and wire services.
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When the NAR issues a feel-bad press release, we should pay attention.
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A few things you may not have caught in last week's news.
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A financial update: The newspaper business still stinks. That's not news to anyone who follows the public stocks of big newspaper companies, including this paper's corporate parent, The New York Times Co. Now one company that has spent most of the past year swimming against that powerful tide finds itself losing favor, too.
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It's not very often that you see something new in News.  News is not exactly new technology, but when personal computers came along, and then widespread networking, it created a whole new playing field for news, that has shaken things up for most of my life. Change comes in fits at starts. First there was the web, then RSS, and now I think we're on the cusp of another bit of change. If you want to see what I think it looks like, check out the home page of nytimesriver.com. But that's not the end of the story. A flat completely chronologic view of news probably isn't enough. And earlier this month at a meeting in NY, two engineers at the NY Times set me off in a new direction, with a very simple bit of advice. They told me to look in the HTML source code of their stories. When I did I saw they had applied a taxonomy to their news flow, and this opened the door to what I would like to show you today -- an outline view of the news.  http://nytimesriver.com/outline/  I believe it's fairly self-explanatory.  The topics are arranged in order of frequency in today's news.  In a previous rendering, the stories were shown in a histogram, but this view I think is much better. You can still see how many pieces relate to the indicated topic, but by clicking on the plus next to each topic, you can actually see the headlines and descriptions, and if you want more you can click through to the full stories. (Initially, the outline was sorted by frequency, with the most frequently occurring keyword appearing first. I changed it, based on feedback, to be alphabetic.) Now, there's still more to do, I showed this to a number of people during the weekend and got some excellent clues on ideas to pursue next, and I will do that. Further, in the process of exploring this, I've been shown the work of other developers who discovered the keywords on their own, and one in particular is very interesting. I'm hoping that these projects will come public so I can show them to you and tell you what I think they mean. This is what I live for, professionally -- the sense of being somewhere with great unexplored potential, a virgin landscape of the intellect. I'm never happier than when I get to play in such a place.  Om Malik: A new way to view news. Please comment on the screen shot page.
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The news seems to get worse by the day for the carriers.
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By Randy Bangert, Greeley Tribune, Colo.  Feb. 25--A newspaper executive recently told The Tribune that the newspaper industry has seen more change in the past year than it experienced in the previous 25 years.
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Newspapers across the country have been engaging in discussions about whether their current rosters of comics are a luxury, given the current dreary economics of the newspaper business.
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For centuries, readers thumbed through the crackling pages of Sweden's Post-och Inrikes Tidningar newspaper. No longer. The world's oldest paper still in circulation has dropped its paper edition and now exists only in cyberspace.
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At New York Times, the bad news just keeps coming.