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12 Mar

Newspapers won’t be missed: Pew poll

If newspapers are dying, here’s why: A lot of people don’t care. That message comes through loud and clear in a recent poll conducted by Pew Research. Asked if they’d miss their local paper if […]

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12 Mar

Magazine salary survey released

The median salary for a top editor at a Canadian consumer magazine is just over $100,000 and about $45,000 for a feature writer, according to a survey released by Magazines […]

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12 Mar

Bridging the gap between newspapers and communities

“But I think it more enlightening to flip that question, and ask again: Can newspapers survive without the communities they need to sustain them?”

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12 Mar

New blogs attempt to replace community newspapers

“NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — We’re seeing the newspaper business collapse in slow motion, but what will replace it? That’s the question behind a wave of start-ups trying to find a […]

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12 Mar

Hyper-local websites boom in 2009 as community newspapers fold

“Hyperlocal websites, both existing and those to launch will thrive as they become the only place to find community news; in 2009 community newspapers will fold in record numbers.”

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12 Mar

Layoffs at Manitoba newspapers

FP Newspapers Income Fund, majority owner of the Winnipeg Free Press and the Brandon Sun, announced it is cutting what amounts to 26 full-time positions. The restructuring at the paper […]

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12 Mar

What’s so hard about local?

“In the debate about the future of news production in a networked age,  the question of the moderately local (or rather, the question of the neither “big” nor “hyperlocal”) remains […]

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12 Mar

Lessons from Tampa about local news

“Media General’s Tampa news outlets have been leaders on the path towards integrated newsrooms for years. Now, as the financial situation at American newspapers weakens, the Tampa Tribune, TBO.com and […]

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12 Mar

Should newspapers get a government bailout?

“Various ideas to overhaul the business model of newspapers have been debated in recent weeks, such as the possibility of a return to paid online content, or a non-profit endowment […]

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12 Mar

What is going to happen to local newspapers as big ones struggle?

“The warnings and elegies for the big-city newspaper have been done to the point of exhaustion, and I don’t want to beat a breaking-down horse of a medium that I […]

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