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15 Feb

Investors take 10 per cent stake in New York Times

A boardroom fight may be brewing at the New York Times, according to Philip Stone, of followthemedia.com. The Times, like many newspaper companies in Canada and the United States, has […]

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15 Feb

New model for Madison

The Capital Times newspaper in Madison Wisconsin switched from a daily broadsheet to a twice weekly tabloid. The 90-year-old newspaper is expected to carry far more content on its new […]

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15 Feb

CNN to feed newspaper content

It used to be that television and radio relied on newspapers for content. In the current US election, the reverse will be true for newspapers in the international Metro chain […]

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15 Feb

New York Times cuts newsroom jobs

The New York Times will cut 100 jobs from its newsroom, executive editor Bill Keller announced Friday.

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11 Feb

Halifax Daily News shut down

The Halifax Daily News was shut down February 11, 2008, by owner Transcontinental Media in a move that took the city — and its own employees — by complete surprise. Transcontinental will […]

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11 Feb

Newspaper stock prices dive

Almost all newspaper stock prices dropped in 2007, according to a report of the World Association of Newspapers; eighty per cent of those stocks dropped by more than 30 per […]

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5 Feb

Chicago Sun-Times on the block

The Sun-Times Media Group was put up for sale yesterday by directors who blamed the management of former media baron Conrad Black for the company’s current difficulties.  Financial statements for […]

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25 Jan

World economic forum: newspapers gone by 2014

Philip M. Stone, writing in followthemedia.com, reports that a World Economic Forum panel featuring futurists Paul Saffo of Stanford and Peter Schwartz suggests that print newspapers will disappear by 2014.

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30 Nov

NYT ed: “Loss of faith” jeopardizing newspapers

The Guardian has printed the full text of the 2007 Hugo Young Memorial Lecture that New York Times executive editor Bill Keller gave at Chatham House. In it, Keller attributes the beleaguered state of the […]

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24 Oct

Why I miss the dead-tree newspaper

“Print’s ultimate demise is a fate foretold by as many indisputable line graphs as Al Gore wields to prove that Knut and his kin are in trouble. But before it […]

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