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24 Mar

Growth of free newspapers slows down

Free newspapers, the fastest growing segment in the newspaper industry, experienced readership declines last year for the first time. Readership of Toronto’s two major freebies, Metro and 24 Hours, fell […]

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12 Mar

News media look for niches

Every segment oftelevision news in the U.S. lost audiences in 2006, according to the annual report of the Project for Excellence in Journalism. Newspapers, although they did well in their […]

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15 Dec

U.S. Census: Internet more popular than newspapers

For the first time in history, time spent on the Internet has surpassed time spent reading newspapers. The stat is just one of many collected in the U.S. Census’ Statistical […]

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30 Nov

Bringing newspapers back

The Belfast Telegraph put together a group of leading media figures from Google News to BBC to ask them about the future of newspapers. Steve Auckland of Associated Newspapers says, […]

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10 Nov

B.C. circulation dip good news for execs

In a column for Vancouver-based online paper, The Tyee, author and media critic Mark Edge argues that newspapers historically portray themselves as the underdog because, strategically, this position is ultimately […]

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13 Dec

Bad financial news can be good news for journalism

Jack Shafer argues in a Slate.com column that recent bad financial news at newspapers does not have to mean bad news for journalism. Shafer calls for newspapers to drop their […]

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13 Dec

New study says newsroom investment pays off

Reuters journalist, Robert MacMillan reports that a recent U.S. study shows that newspapers executives who have invested more money in editorial have made more money in the long term. MacMillan […]

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13 Dec

Narrative journalism comes of age

Narrative journalism in newspapers is the sensitive subject taken on by Mark Kramer in this essay from Nieman Reports. Declining readership and the search for more “remedies to widespread current […]

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