The demise of newspapers means better journalism

We who contemplate the importance of journalism look at the future with trepidation. What happens to journalism, we ask, when newspapers continue on their inevitable decline? The question assumes that journalism itself will be diminished. I am coming to a different...

Sri Lankans Ponder Life After Wartime

This war has almost ended.The hard part will next bereconciliation. "Winning the war in one thing, analysts say, but bringing unity to Sri Lanka is another. Unity in Sri Lanka means closing the divide between the...

Newspaper bailout in France

"French president Nicolas Sarkozy has pledged nearly $780 million in emergency aid for his country’s troubled newspaper industry.  In addition to his pledge of €600m ($779 million), Sarkozy has promised that...

France to Aid Newspapers

After a three-month investigation of the problems facing the French press, French President Nicolas Sarkozy has promised the following: tax breaks for delivery services, a doubling of the advertising it does in print...

Ex-KGB spy buys London newspaper

A former KGB agent has been given the go-ahead to buy a high-profile London newspaper, the Evening Standard. Russian billionaire Alexander Lebedev is buying the paper from Teh Daily Mail & General Trust."...

Newspaper Companies Warm Up to Homeless

Knowing they have a product that might help turn around their industry’s financial woes, newspaper owners are warming up to the homeless people living along the curbs and in the alleyways outside their downtown...

Gannett Newspaper Employees Told to Take a Week Off From Work

Alida Antonia Cornelius January 14th, 2008 Gannett, owner of USA Today and other newspapers across the USA, has stated that they are asking nearly 40,000 employees to take an unpaid one week furlough. Newspapers...

Biting Humor and Politics, 'Permis de Croquer' Cartoon Exhibit...

The UN gets its message across in many ways including Cartooning for Peace. To celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights they offer in collaboration with the Forney Library in Paris an exhibit titled Permis de Croquer...

A Glimpse Of News From Pakistani Newspapers (Sunday, 4 Jan, 2009)

A Glimpse Of News From Pakistani Newspapers From Sunday, 4th January 2009 Issue.Daily Dawn ( English ) And Jang ( Urdu ) Are The Widely Circulated And Well Known Newspapers Of Pakistan. Today, I Thought Just To Share With The World A Glimpse Of News Published In Today’s...

2008: The year the Internet beat Newspapers As News Source

In the official history of the news business 2008 will be noted as the year that online news surpassed newspapers as a news source: "The internet, which emerged this year as a leading source for campaign news, has...

Nintendo Wii Hospitalzing At Least 10 Per Week

Was watching Fox News and had to get this up before someone else.  Can you believe video games are injuring so many folks?  Ay yi yi. " The growing toll has prompted NHS doctors to warn of the dangers. Wii-itis sufferers usually have excruciating pain in the...

Newspapers Finally Embracing Web 2.0

This story was originally published by BetaTales.com U.S. newspapers are finally embracing Web 2.0 in their web operations, according to a major survey. But is it too late? Every year, The Bivings Group conducts a study of the web features of America’s largest newspapers...

Why Not Writing a Story Is Innovation

Some good advice for the news business. " Newsrooms have to rethink the kind of stories they cover and the way they tell those stories, or all the new technologies could be wasted on news that readers don’t find...

Chicago Tribune Newspaper $13bn record bankruptcy

Is this a print error $13 bn dept for a newspaper ? How can a Newspaper disguise $13bn dept and who was so stupid to finance this? If this number is true, the Responsibles should go to prison immediately. Chapter...

The Economist's Article Was Right On The Money About Catalonia

"I’ve got to take my hat off to The Economist for publishing an excellent article about Catalonia called “The party’s over” last week. It has caused great concern here in Catalonia and there’s been much calling for public apologies, articles being banned etc etc. In...

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