Gannett, one of the largest newspaper publishers in the United States, that publishes Wall Street Journal, is to lay off over 1,000 workers due to a slow off in advertising sales. As much as 2,000 people could be laid off in this latest round of cutbacks, but the actual...
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The State newspaper in Columbia SC probably knew about the Sanford Affair for months. The paper caught the Governor getting off a Plane from Argentina at Atlanta-Hartsfield Airport earlier in the day and...
Despairing about the future of print media? Dave Eggers, acclaimed author and McSweeney's founder, will be shoulder to cry on. And he just might save the newspaper biz along the way. ""I actually have established an e-mail address, deggers@826national.org--if you want to...
According to the Vancouver edition of the daily Metro newspaper fashion designer Marc Jacobs is dead. The "late American designer" is known throughout the fashion community for reinvigorating the industry and inciting trends in the last decade. But fear not, the famed Louis...
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" The weeklong search for Daniel Hauser — the 13-year-old refusing court-ordered chemotherapy — came to an end Monday when Brown County authorities announced he and his mother were back in Minnesota. The...
" Internet must remain under the safeguard and control of the American public, no nation-less corporation, or their agent the U.S. Government should ever be able to mandate, or regulate the Internet. Internet...
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The New York Times has won five Pulitzer prizes for its journalism, the second most in the paper's history. The Florida-based St Petersburg Times also won two awards, one for the fact-checking website Politifact.com. " The Times won the prize for breaking news reporting,...
Not one to be thrown off by the irksome and carbuncular ramblings of the presently ireful Associated Press, esteemed new media blogger, author, and commentator Jeff Jarvis stepped up to the plate today and delivered...
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As reported here a strike has begung at the Daily Record and Sunday Mail newspaper offices HQ in Glasgow, Scotland. It follows a strike ballot that was held by the National Union of Journalists, where the 276...
Raised an avid consumer of newspaper journalism, I went on to earn a j-school degree from Oklahoma State University and hold a variety of professional positions, most of which afforded me opportunities to work with...
Journalists at one of Scotland's biggest newspapers are to strike because of restructuring and job cuts. The newspapers, the Daily Record and Sunday Mail, owned by Trinity Mirror will strike for 2 days. It follows...
This is the bizzarest story I've read all week. The Amsterdam prostitutes trade union have made an apeal to visiting Scottish men, visiting the red light district for a soccer game on Saturday to pick homegrown...
The Chicago Tribune was one of the first big American newspapers to rally its staffers to get on Twitter and now they've taken the bold step into full-force, mass-twidoption by posting the Tribune's Masthead as a...
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While their Denver counterparts at the now defunct Rocky Mountain News try to drum up pledge support for an online version of their newspaper, staffers at the soon-to-be-extinct Seattle Post-Intelligencer are...
Former staff members and reporters from the recently defunct newspaper, the Rocky Mountain News, are planning to launch an alternative news site driven and funded by readers. The crowdfunded new news site...